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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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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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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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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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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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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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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
noise is a pollution.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
