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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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London
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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I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.
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The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
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Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.
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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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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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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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Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.
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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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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
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The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.
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Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.
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Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.
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Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies that a city knows not whom it entertains.
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
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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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