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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 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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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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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 is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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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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In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.
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