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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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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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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 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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The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.
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noise is a pollution.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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 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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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