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The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.
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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But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.
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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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No great thing happens suddenly.
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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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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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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 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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... 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.
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A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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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 childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.
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Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
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the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.
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If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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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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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Rebecca West
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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