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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.
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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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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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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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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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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