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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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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 is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.
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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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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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The Church has lost a great religious poet in me but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.
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