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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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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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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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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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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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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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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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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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