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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.
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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.
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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.
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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.
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