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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
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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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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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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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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.
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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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