Rebecca West Quotes - Page 9

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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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• To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

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  Men, World, Littles

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Meaning of Treason”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.

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  Reading, Men, Independence

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

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  Writing, Vitality, Fiction

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• There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

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  Grief, Cutting, Grace

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

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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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• ... 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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• ... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

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  Happy, Laughter, Guarantees That

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

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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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• It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

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  People, Feelings, Mind

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Return of the Soldier”, p.110, Broadview Press

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• Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

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  Mean, Eye, Hands

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

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• The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

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  Flames, Age, Grass

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.45, Open Road Media

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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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