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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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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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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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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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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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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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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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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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