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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 6
Died: 1978
Died: May 1
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Silvia Warner
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
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The Church has lost a great religious poet in me but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash and then for a very long time you are old.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.
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One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
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