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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.

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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Musicologist
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Harrow
Silvia Warner
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Rabbits

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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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