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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.
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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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.
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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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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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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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