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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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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 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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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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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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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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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