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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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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.
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My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.
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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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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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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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 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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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noise is a pollution.
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