Rebecca West Quotes - Page 9

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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 Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

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  Successful, Giving, Portraits

  Rebecca West (2014). “Henry James: A Critical Biography”, p.42, 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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• If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

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  Thinking, If There Is A God, Trying

  "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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• The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

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  Children, Divorce, Men

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

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• Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

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  Virginia, Survival, This Generation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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