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Osbert Sitwell Quotes: Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
         

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.


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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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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.



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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 idle and idiot well-to-do.



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Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.



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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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