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Edith Sitwell

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

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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"People with evil ideas will think and do as they have learned, but those people with good ideas have the responsibility to show them the way of love, way of truth, and the way of peace."

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"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

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"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
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"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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"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."
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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 wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."
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"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."
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"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."
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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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"The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten."
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