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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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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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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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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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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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 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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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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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.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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