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music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
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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sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.
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It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.
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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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Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.
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... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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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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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
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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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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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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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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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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art one of the damned things is ample.
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
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Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.
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The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.
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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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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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You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
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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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