once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.
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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