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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
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Silvia Warner
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Noise

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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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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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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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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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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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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