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You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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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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Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.
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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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All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
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I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
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Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.
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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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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.
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domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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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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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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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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I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.
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