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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.
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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noise is a pollution.
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The Church has lost a great religious poet in me but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.
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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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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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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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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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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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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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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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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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