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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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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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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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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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
To think of losing is to lose already.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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
