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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 intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

— 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.

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.

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