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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
Linguist
Musicologist
Novelist
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Harrow
Silvia Warner
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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[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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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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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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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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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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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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