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All Quotes by author - Edith Sitwell

" A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. "

" Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. "

" Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. "

" I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. "

" I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. "

" I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. "

" I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. "

" I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. "

" I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. "

" My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. "

" Poetry is the deification of reality. "

" Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. "

" The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. "

" The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. "

" The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. "

" The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention. "

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