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Edith Sitwell Quotes: 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.
         

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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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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