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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.
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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One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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 do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.
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Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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