Rebecca West Quotes - Page 9

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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.

  Rebecca West

  People, Upholstery, Imagine

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

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• When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Hands, Important

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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.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Grace, Delight

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

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• Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Civilization, Reform

  Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

  Rebecca West

  Art, War, Simple

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by 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.

  Rebecca West

  People, Doe, Faces

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

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• Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Connections, Impossible

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

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• Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

  Rebecca West

  Race, Different Nationalities, Deeds

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.616, Open Road Media

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• The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

  Rebecca West

  Sacrifice, Race, Childhood

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• ... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

  Rebecca West

  Beautiful, Eye, Errors

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.139, 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.

  Rebecca West

  Death, Race, May

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

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• Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

  Rebecca West

  Real, War, Lying

  Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”

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• Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.

  Rebecca West

  Book, Doctors, Years

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

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