Edith Sitwell

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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells .


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Quote Left Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese Quote Right
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Quote Left The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then,... Quote Right
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Quote Left I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink. Quote Right
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Quote Left Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. Quote Right
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Quote Left Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Quote Right
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