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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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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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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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