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- Poetry is the deification of reality.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Life magazine, 01-04-63
- I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Life magazine, 01-04-63
- Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965
- I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Her last words, as quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
- Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), "On the Blue Water," Esquire, April 1936
- The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
- Rhys Alexander, Writing Gooder, 12-09-05
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html
- Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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