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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
Linguist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
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Harrow
Silvia Warner
Pleasure
Anticipation
Expectations

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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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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 fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!
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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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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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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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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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