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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?»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: novels, unwritten
«God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.»
«Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.»
«All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: like so, pear, pears, treason, veins
«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.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: widely
«It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: skunk, skunks
«Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | About: Work
«I write books to find out about things.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer)
«All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: biography
«She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: apparent, strayed

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