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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
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Harrow
Silvia Warner
Surprise
Doe
Love
Amazes

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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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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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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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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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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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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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