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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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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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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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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 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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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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