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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 - 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic

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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.

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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

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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.

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

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

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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'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.

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

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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.

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

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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

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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

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