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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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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 [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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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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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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Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.
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... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.
Rebecca West
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West
I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.
Rebecca West
In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
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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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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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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'
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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.
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You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
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I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
Rebecca West
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.
Rebecca West
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
Rebecca West
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West
Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.
Rebecca West
