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He is every other inch a gentleman.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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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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All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.
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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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All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
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Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
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To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.
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The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.
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Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
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I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
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Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.
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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art one of the damned things is ample.
Rebecca West
When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.
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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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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
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A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
Rebecca West
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
