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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.
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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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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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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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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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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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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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