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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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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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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash and then for a very long time you are old.
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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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