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.

Edith Sitwell

Tags: individuality eccentricity fish catfish eels

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You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.

Aristophanes

Tags: peace greed materialism disdain vice fishing trouble politicians eels filth unrest unclean demagoguery grime slime upheaval

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