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Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
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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When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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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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... 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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The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
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Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.
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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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Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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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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Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.
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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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Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
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I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
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it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.
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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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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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The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.
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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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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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