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

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

“People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.”

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

“Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. If we are mad — we and our brothers in America who are walking hand in hand with us in the vanguard of progress — at least we are mad in company with most of our great predecessors and all the most intelligent foreigners. Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner, Shelley, Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth were all mad in turn. We shall be proud to join them in the Asylum to which they are now consigned.”

“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: A Nearly Forgotten Poetess”

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