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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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
Anticipation
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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