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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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Silvia Warner
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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noise is a pollution.
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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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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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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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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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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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 is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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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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