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Rebecca West
Rebecca West
Irish Author
Born: Dec 21, 1892
Died: Mar 15, 1983
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Related authors: Anne Enright C. S. Lewis Frank Harris Frank McCourt Iris Murdoch Kevin Barry Os Guinness Sally Rooney
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
Myself Me People Feminism Out Find Able Only Never Know Call Feminist Been Precisely Whenever Doormat Sentiments Express Differentiate
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. Rebecca West
Art Great Intelligence Logical Great Art Through Pass Camel Mob Should Reason Why Needle
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. Rebecca West
History Sometimes Smell Tell Between Very Difference Hard Skunk
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West
Soul Passion Master Own Duty Abandon Must Itself Loyal Desires
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. Rebecca West
God Book Practice Indefensible Forbid Any Banned Should
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. Rebecca West
Communication Writing Mind Nothing Only Between Parts Person Different Different Parts
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. Rebecca West
Salt Earth Wounds Having Nobody Likes Even
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. Rebecca West
Man Complicated Simple Trouble Too Twofold About He Learn Truths Forgets Cannot Which
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. Rebecca West
Art Universe Required Things Ample Copy
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
Trust People Believe Other Everyone Say People Say About Little Themselves Realized Less Even Each Widely
I write books to find out about things. Rebecca West
Books Out Find About Write Things
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. Rebecca West
Tears Example Other Dissipation Features For Example Than Things
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. Rebecca West
Great Man Great Man Entirely Joyce Without Taste James James Joyce Who
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. Rebecca West
Out Drew Given Glass Major Comfort Material Real Up Brandy Which Mozart Warmth Works
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. Rebecca West
Destruction Hypocrisy Rate More Powerful Likely Because Stinks Than Agent
He is every other inch a gentleman. Rebecca West
Gentleman Every Other He Inch
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. Rebecca West
Mom Motherhood Own Horse Like Being Strangest Thing
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. Rebecca West
Women Men Men And Women Main Between Idiots Women Are Difference Lunatics
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. Rebecca West
Experience Universe Thither Side Those Gulf Vital Between Than Wider

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