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• I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

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  Christian, Believe, People

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• a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

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  Oysters, Palate, Please

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.484, Open Road Media

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• I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.

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  People, Upholstery, Imagine

  "There is nothing like a dame: Dame Rebecca West at ninety". "Vogue" Magazine, February 1983.

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• All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

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  Smell, Differences, Degrees

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Birds Fall Down”, p.151, Open Road Media

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• ... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

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  Death, Race, May

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.194, Open Road Media

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• All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

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  Good Life, Fiction, Biographies

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• I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

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  Blood, Yugoslavia, Flesh

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.62, Open Road Media

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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.

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  Real, War, Glasses

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

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  Blow, Wind, Issues

  Rebecca West (2011). “Survivors in Mexico”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

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  Art, Grace, Delight

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

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  People, Doe, Faces

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.12, Open Road Media

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

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  Men, Taste, Great Men

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

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  Law, Looks, Magazines

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media

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