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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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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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