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“when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.”

Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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A compilation of personal and professional exchanges that delve into the complexities of human connection and introspection. more

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner was an American novelist whose works delved into the complexities of human relationships and the influence of historical events on individuals. Born on December 6, 1893, she spent much of her life in New England, which deeply influenced her writing. Warner's career spanned several decades, during which she published a number of critically acclaimed novels. more

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

Character Lasts Found Week Six

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week.”

World Should Self Stories Eye Able Lasts Next Written Week Subjects Red Window Letters Should Have Manage Staring Going Away Self Control Next Week Moths Red Eye

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.”

People Ifs Firsts Hands Couple Advantage Letters Bills Profession Sensitive Denied Receiving Pennies Outrageous Despicable Love Letter Dubious Annoyance Bandits Postman Groveling

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“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?”

People Army Realization Rejects Bores

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“... 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.”

Two Three Silence Creator Surface Painter Flats Mute

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“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.”

People Easy Morning Decided Degrading Easy Love

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Happy is the day whose history is not written down.”

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

People Thinking Dies Great Men Annoyed

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.”