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One Quotes by Edith Sitwell
- Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to…
- Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
- Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
- Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:…
- If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
- I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
- Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a…
- Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?
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