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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
Edith Sitwell
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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'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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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.
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Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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