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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?

Edith Sitwell

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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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North Yorkshire
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.
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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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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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