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... each of them is inhabited by a bland demon, as the German metaphysicians used to call that which gets into a man and makes him creative, not so forcibly that it turns them away from criticism, but valid enough to give them the right to speak with the authority of artists. - Rebecca West
Attribution: Rebecca West (1892–1983), British author. The Strange Necessity, ch. 5 (1928). On the Sitwell siblings—Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell—British poets and critics of aristocratic background and modest, congenial literary talent.

Categories: Author, Creativity, Literary Criticism, Sitwell Family

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