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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 6
Died: 1978
Died: May 1
Linguist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Harrow
Silvia Warner
Surprise
Doe
Love
Amazes

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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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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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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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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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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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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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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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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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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 wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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