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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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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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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 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 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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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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