Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes

Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English novelist and poet. She also made a contribution to musicology as a young woman. Wikipedia

✵ 6. December 1893 – 1. May 1978 • Other names Silvia Warner

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes

“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 book Lolly Willowes

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“One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that - to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to by others.”

Sylvia Townsend Warner book Lolly Willowes

Source: Lolly Willowes

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