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Rebecca West


Irish
December 21, 1892
Author
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Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.


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Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.


Rebecca West
Tags: More Than Never
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.


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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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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.


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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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Tags: Because More Than
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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Tags: About Which He
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
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I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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Tags: People Me Know
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
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Tags: More Than Much
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