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Rebecca West Quotes

Rebecca West quotes about greatness

Irish Author December 21, 1892 – March 15, 1983

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Allowed to cast themselves for great tragic roles, they were experiencing the exhilaration felt by great tragic actors. It was not lack of control, lack of taste, lack of knowledge that accounted for permission of what was not permitted in the West. Rather was it the reverse. Our people could not have handled patients full of the dangerous thoughts of death and love; these people had such resources that they did not need to empty their patients of such freight. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values..."
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should..."
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. Rebecca West
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. Rebecca West

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