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Rebecca West
Life ought to...
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the...
The trouble with...
The trouble with man is twofold. He cannot learn the truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too...
If the whole...
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at...
Journalism - an...
Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Source: The New...
Any authentic work...
Any authentic work of art must start as an argument between the artist and his audience.
Most works of...
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their...
Men must be...
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain...
It is the...
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master...
It is queer...
It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into...
The point is...
The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the...
There is no...
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is...
The main difference...
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
I wonder if...
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we...
There is no...
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital...
Did St Francis...
Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the...
God forbid that...
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
[Writing] has nothing...
[Writing] has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different...
I write books...
I write books to find out about things.
Source:
-- Rebecca West, (Dec 25...
Before a war...
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy. But after a war it seems more like...
Everyone realizes that...
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized...
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