"History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man."

-- Washington Irving

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“A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.”
“I have the Google alert for ***** articles come on my phone everyday. There are some interesting ones that have come up that I file away.”
“At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.”
“We should hold abusers â€” and no one else â€” responsible for the damage they inflict.”
“making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world.”
“I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.”
“if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.”
“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”

Source : Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

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