Edith Sitwell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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“The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”
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“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
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“Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.”
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“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”
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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. It is no season in which to wander the world as if one were the wind blowing aimlessly along the streets without a place to rest, without food, and without time meaning anything to one, just as time means nothing to the wind.”
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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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“I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.”
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“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
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“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”
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“What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.”
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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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“Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.”
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“Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...”
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“the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.”
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“All great art contains an element of the irrational.”
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“I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.”
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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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“People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.”
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“By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.”
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