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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
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Silvia Warner
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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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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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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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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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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