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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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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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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 wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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 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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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