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noise is a pollution.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 6
Died: 1978
Died: May 1
Linguist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
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Silvia Warner
Pollution
Noise

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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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