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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 6
Died: 1978
Died: May 1
Linguist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
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Writer
Harrow
Silvia Warner
Praise
Enough
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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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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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 wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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