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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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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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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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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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Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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