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Rebecca West Quotes
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. - Rebecca West Quotes
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. - Rebecca West Quotes
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. - Rebecca West Quotes
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. - Rebecca West Quotes
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. - Rebecca West Quotes
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - Rebecca West Quotes
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. - Rebecca West Quotes
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. - Rebecca West Quotes
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. - Rebecca West Quotes
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. - Rebecca West Quotes
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. - Rebecca West Quotes
He is every other inch a gentleman. - Rebecca West Quotes
He was every other inch a gentleman. - Rebecca West Quotes
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. - Rebecca West Quotes
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. - Rebecca West Quotes
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. - Rebecca West Quotes
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? - Rebecca West Quotes
I write books to find out about things. - Rebecca West Quotes
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. - Rebecca West Quotes
It is always ones virtues and not ones vices that precipitate one into disaster. - Rebecca West Quotes
It is always ones virtues and not ones vices that precipitate ones disaster. - Rebecca West Quotes
It is queer how it is always ones virtues and not ones vices that precipitate one into disaster. - Rebecca West Quotes
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. - Rebecca West Quotes
It is the souls duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. - Rebecca West Quotes
Its the souls duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. - Rebecca West Quotes
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. - Rebecca West Quotes
Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. - Rebecca West Quotes
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. - Rebecca West Quotes
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West Quotes
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being ones own Trojan horse. - Rebecca West Quotes
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