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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?
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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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 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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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noise is a pollution.
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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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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 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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Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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