Quotes by Rebecca West

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.

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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

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I write books to find out about things.

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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing...

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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only...

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Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

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He is every other inch a gentleman.

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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But...

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Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he...

#Rebecca West