Rebecca West

Life ought to...

Life ought to...

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the...

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The trouble with...

The trouble with...

The trouble with man is twofold. He cannot learn the truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too...

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If the whole...

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...

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Journalism - an...

Journalism - an...

Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Source: The New...

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Any authentic work...

Any authentic work...

Any authentic work of art must start as an argument between the artist and his audience.

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Most works of...

Most works of...

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their...

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Men must be...

Men must be...

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain...

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It is the...

It is the...

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master...

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It is queer...

It is queer...

It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into...

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The point is...

The point is...

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is...

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The main difference...

The main difference...

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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I wonder if...

I wonder if...

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital...

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Did St Francis...

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...

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God forbid that...

God forbid that...

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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[Writing] has nothing...

[Writing] has nothing...

[Writing] has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different...

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I write books...

I write books...

I write books to find out about things.

Source:
-- Rebecca West, (Dec 25...

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Before a war...

Before a war...

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy. But after a war it seems more like...

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Everyone realizes that...

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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