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

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

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 quotes: There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

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

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

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

Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

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

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: Inflation is the senility of democracies.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

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

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

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

No one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

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

And another day is tucked under my wing.

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

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

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

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 quotes: [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

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

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

Laura was not in any way religious. She was not even religious enough to speculate towards irreligion.

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

To think of losing is to lose already.

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

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

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

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

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

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

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

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

I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: One cannot revoke a true happiness.

One cannot revoke a true happiness.

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

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: Happiness is an immunity.

Happiness is an immunity.

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

There are not enough poems in praise of bed ...

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

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

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

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

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

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 quotes: The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: My blood ran with this ink...

My blood ran with this ink...

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: 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?

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

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 quotes: Noise is a pollution.

Noise is a pollution.

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

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

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: 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.

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 quotes: For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ...

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

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

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

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

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

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

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

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

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

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

Love amazes, but it does not surprise.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

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

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ...

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

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

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

Sylvia Townsend Warner quotes: 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.

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.