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Unhappy people are dangerous.
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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When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.
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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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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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When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.
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It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
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