Quotes about Rebecca West

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more...

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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not...

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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go...

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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the...

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The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the...

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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat...

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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of...

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Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits...

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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of...

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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

#Rebecca West