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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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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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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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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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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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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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.
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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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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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