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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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 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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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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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I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people who intensify it seem to get quite a lot of interest out of that, too, and are as preoccupied as pirates.
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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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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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We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.
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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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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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