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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.

— Osbert Sitwell

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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

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.

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