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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.
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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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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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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