"As the blackness of the night recedes so……" — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
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16 Quotes by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
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There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
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It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However…
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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand…
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You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to…
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When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of…
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I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a…
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A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
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When I teach people, I marry them.
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Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot…
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The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
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I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
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Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us…
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It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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