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• I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

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  Able, Wonderful, Knows

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• When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

  Rebecca West

  Sex, Believe, Army

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• Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

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  Hate, Animal, Men

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

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  Afternoon, Rudeness, Scales

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.331, Open Road Media

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• Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

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  Future, Madness, Certain

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• The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

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  Survival, Energy, Principles

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

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  Law, Shelter, Instinct

  Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.25, Open Road Media

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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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  Doctors, Hands, Medicine

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• Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

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  Laughing, Gathering, Tendencies

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• The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

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  Grace, Arbitrary, Divine

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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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  Kissing, Praying, Stills

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• The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

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  Adventure, Enough, Get Over

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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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  Gambling, Purpose, Flesh

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

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  Art, Society, Literature

  Bernard Causton, G. Gordon Young, Rebecca West (1930). “Keeping it dark: or, The censor's handbook”

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• It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

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  Agony, People, Forgiving

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.475, Open Road Media

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Hands

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• I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

  Rebecca West

  Forgiveness, Believe, Forget

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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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  Struggle, Simple, Vote

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• There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

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  Women, Talking, People

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• [Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

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  Cute, Sick, Made

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• An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

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  Simple, Feet, Orange

  Rebecca West (1982). “Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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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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• The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

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  Bullying, Father, Bully

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

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  Sleep, Reason

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Birds Fall Down”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.

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  Thinking, Egypt, Pyramids

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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