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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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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 seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
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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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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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I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.
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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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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