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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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When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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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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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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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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To think of losing is to lose already.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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noise is a pollution.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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