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Edith Sitwell

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

Edith Sitwell, British Poet
People, Now, Reading, Writing
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"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."

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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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