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Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.
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Death transfigured her. In a matter of minutes I saw the beauty of her young days reassert itself on her blurred careworn face. It was like something in music, the re-establishment of the original key, the return of the theme. Don't think I am unhappy and alone, dear William. I am not. I am in a new country and she is the compass I travel by.
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Violet walked first with Valentine, then with me, pouring out her anxious heart, clinging, like a heavy butterfly, to my arm.
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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 my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.
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The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Born:
December 6, 1893
Died:
May 1, 1978
(aged 84)
Bio:
Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English novelist and poet. She also made a contribution to musicology as a young woman.
Known for:
Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman (1926)
Summer will show (1936)
Mr. Fortune's maggot (1927)
The Corner That Held Them (1948)
Kingdoms of Elfin (1977)
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