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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Am Patient Proud Stupidity Those Who I Am

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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Hobbies Listening Music Personal Reading Silence

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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Ever Good Good Taste Invented Taste Vice Worst

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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Am Catfish Electric Pool Unpopular I Am

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Anything Believe Founded Long Public Truth Will

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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Black Blind Cross Dark Falls Forty Hundred Loss Man Nails Nineteen Our Rain Still World

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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Baby Element Ever Get Hot Hot Water Native Never Out Seemed Since Water

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

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Better Employed Great Keeping Many Now People Rabbits Reading Would Writing

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Forgotten Life Men Other Poet Speaks

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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.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Am Authority Because Become Church Discipline Fire Hope Hopelessly Step Taken Unworthy Want Worthy I Am

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: September 7th, 1887

Died: December 9th, 1964

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