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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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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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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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