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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell
People
Now
Reading
Writing
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell
Taste
Vice
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
Baby
Water
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell
Art
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
Stupidity
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell
Government
Tax
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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Discipline
Hope
Church
Authority
Fire
Unworthy
Want
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell
Poetry
Reality
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
Blind
Loss
Man
Rain
World
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.
Edith Sitwell
Truth
Flattery
Opinion
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Life
Men
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Truth
Public
Will
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.
Edith Sitwell
Attention
Dress
Mouse
Trouble
Want
Will
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
Time
Modesty
Thinking
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
Music
Hobbies
Listening
Reading
Silence