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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
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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one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.
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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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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
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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.
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Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.
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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 [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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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
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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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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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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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There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
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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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[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.
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The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.
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Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
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The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
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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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I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
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