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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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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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