All Rebecca West Quotes
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca West
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca West
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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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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Rebecca West
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The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Rebecca West
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Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
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Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Rebecca West
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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?
Rebecca West
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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
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