| It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| 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. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| He is every other inch a gentleman. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. |
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- Rebecca West |
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| I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. |
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- Rebecca West |
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