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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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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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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
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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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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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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