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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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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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I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people who intensify it seem to get quite a lot of interest out of that, too, and are as preoccupied as pirates.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.
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noise is a pollution.
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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.
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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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