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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

She had thrown away twenty years of her life like a handful of old rags, but the wind had blown them back again, and dressed her in the old uniform. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

God, an enormous darkness, hung looped over half her sky, an ever-present menace, a cloud waiting to break. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Inflation is the senility of democracies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

No one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

And another day is tucked under my wing. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

But what are wishes, compared with longings? — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Laura was not in any way religious. She was not even religious enough to speculate towards irreligion. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

To think of losing is to lose already. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I wasn't educated. I was very lucky. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

One cannot revoke a true happiness. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Happiness is an immunity. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

There are not enough poems in praise of bed ... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

My blood ran with this ink... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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? — Sylvia Townsend Warner

When the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Noise is a pollution. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

all her thoughts slid together again like a pack of hounds that have picked up the scent. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Love amazes, but it does not surprise. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Belligerents always abolish war after a war. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Happy is the day whose history is not written down. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

She was heavier than he expected - women always are. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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. — Sylvia Townsend Warner