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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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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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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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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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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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Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.
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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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