Edith Sitwell Quotes and Sayings
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“Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints”
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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
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“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
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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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“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
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“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”
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“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.”
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“Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.”
-- Edith Sitwell