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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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 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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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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.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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