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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.
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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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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when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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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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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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