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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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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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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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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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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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The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.
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noise is a pollution.
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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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