Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes - Page 4

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• I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Parent, Age

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Baby, Children, Salmon

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

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Aunt, Wish, Anarchist

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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.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Morning, People, Easy

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• ... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Two, Silence, Three

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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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.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Mad, Tree, Nests

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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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.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Should Have, Singing

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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