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A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
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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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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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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If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
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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 isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
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... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.
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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
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There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.
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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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It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.
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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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Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies that a city knows not whom it entertains.
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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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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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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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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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He is every other inch a gentleman.
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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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