Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes - Page 4

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

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  Aunt, Wish, Anarchist

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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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• When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Moving, Circles, Mind

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1988). “Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Vintage

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• cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Cooking, Pleasure, Succulents

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (2011). “Scenes of Childhood”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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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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• ... 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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• I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Ideas, Shining, Bending

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

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