One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
To think of losing is to lose already. - Sylvia Townsend Warner
To think of losing is to lose already.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued. - Sylvia Townsend Warner
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
Happy is the day whose history is not written down. - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Happy is the day whose history is not written down.
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on… - Sylvia Townsend Warner
One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on…
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you. - Sylvia Townsend Warner
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies. - Sylvia Townsend Warner
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops… - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops…
And another day is tucked under my wing. - Sylvia Townsend Warner
And another day is tucked under my wing.
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