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Sylvia Townsend Warner has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked…
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Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
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Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you…
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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…
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their…
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The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out…
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of…
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Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who…
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It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their…
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The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that…
— George W. Bush
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To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates…
— William Mountford
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What’s that?” she asked the girl, wrinkling her nose. “Oh, that? That’s just Pillover.” “And what’s a pillover, when it’s at home?”…
— Gail Carriger
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Before we commiserate with others, right pity ourselves before others sympathetic to our plight
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We see each other socially occasionally. When he was going through the first parts of his divorce we'd commiserate a lot, but…
— Jon Cryer
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