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1892–1969 England
Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt. (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English poet, novelist, memoirist and controversialist on behalf of the arts. Osbert Sitwell, his brother Sacheverell and his sister Edith were among the most conspicuous figures in the British artistic world of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
Educ[ated]: during the holidays from Eton.
Entry in Who's Who (1929)
Evil and ugliness are the same thing, and dullness is the mother of both.
For most of the well-to-do in the town, dinner was a shibboleth, its hour dividing mankind.
Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.
They loved him, I think, because, with all his merits, he showed them to be rich: looking at his portraits, they understood at last how rich they really were.
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy…to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.
The British bourgeoisie
The Daily Herald is unkind.
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!
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