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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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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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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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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.
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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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