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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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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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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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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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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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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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