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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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