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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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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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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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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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noise is a pollution.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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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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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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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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