Rebecca West Quotes - Page 6

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• It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

  Rebecca West

  Errors, Literature, Monkeys

  "Rebecca West, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Marina Warner, The Paris Review, No. 79, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1981.

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• Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

  Rebecca West

  Marriage, Wedding, Divorce

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• If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Wife, Office

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• It seemed a good idea at the time.

  Rebecca West

  Ideas, Good Ideas

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• Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

  Rebecca West

  Acceptance, Loss, Trying

  Rebecca West (1977). “Rebecca West, a celebration”, Viking Adult

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• But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

  Rebecca West

  Grief, Tears, Example

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.316, Open Road Media

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• Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

  Rebecca West

  Finals, Phases, Christianity

  Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.37, iUniverse

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• ... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

  Rebecca West

  Matter, Lovers

  Rebecca West (2016). “The Return of the Soldier”, p.45, Xist Publishing

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• A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

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  Real, Fake, Criticism

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.161, Open Road Media

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• Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.

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  Home, Sacrifice, Self

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• Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

  Rebecca West

  Giving, Nails, Fiction

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• I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

  Rebecca West

  Father, Glorious

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.198, Open Road Media

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• His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Teeth, His Smile

  Rebecca West (2007). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”, p.623, Penguin

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• Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Journey, Air

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

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• Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Church, Want

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Civilization, Games

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• If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

  Rebecca West

  Age, Investment, Sensible

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• [The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

  Rebecca West

  Imagination, Quality, World

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.172, Open Road Media

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• For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

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  Country, Soul, Littles

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

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  Experience, Sides, Universe

  Rebecca West (2007). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”, p.623, Penguin

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• There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

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  Character, Mystery

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.540, Open Road Media

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• He is every other inch a gentleman.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Men, Gentleman

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

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  Intellectual, Quality, Rabbits

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

  Rebecca West

  Sex, World, Life Is

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

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  Confusion, Use, Tests

  Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.11, iUniverse

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