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Osbert Sitwell has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the…
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the…
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
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I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
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How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though…
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
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The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the…
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The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
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Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
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We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.
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For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
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I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
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The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
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Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the…
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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
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If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a…
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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
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