"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."

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

Edith Sitwell

#Women Quotes #Eels Quotes #People Quotes

“Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.”
“Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.”
“Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.”
“I used to murder people for money, but these days itâ€™s more of a survival technique.”

Source : "Widow's Web". Book by Jennifer Estep, August 21, 2012.
“The future just isn't what it used to be”
“If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.”

Source : "The Heretic". Play by Morris West, 1968.
“You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'”
“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

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