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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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