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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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Suffragette
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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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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It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
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It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.
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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.
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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
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The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.
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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
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... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.
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There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.
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If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
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I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.
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Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
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Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.
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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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No great thing happens suddenly.
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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
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