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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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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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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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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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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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.
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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.
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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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