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Rebecca West Quotes
Brief author info: Rebecca West (1892-1983) Pen name of Mrs. Cicily Maxwell Andrews, born Fairfield. English novelist, critic, essayist.
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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
Journalism-an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
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.
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.
Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
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.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Funny Quote
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Inspirational Quote
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Funny Quote
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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