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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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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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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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