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

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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love Gone is the heart of Man.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.
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My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
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