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Rebecca West Quotes

Rebecca West quotes

Irish Author December 21, 1892 – March 15, 1983

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Rebecca West quote: "There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male..."
There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano. 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
The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers grow cold, then warm, then cold again, then warm, and at last hot, and burning hot. The weakly King was hard to kill: when they threw him from the balcony they thought him doubly dead from bullet wounds and sword slashes, but the fingers of his right hand clasped the railing and had to be cut off before he fell to the ground, where the fingers of his left hand clutched the grass. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "The main difference between men and women is that men are..."
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. Rebecca West
Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever Rebecca West
Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct. Rebecca West
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of..."
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. Rebecca West
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which..."
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "I write books to find out about things."
I write books to find out about things. 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
At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because machinery had made a fool of itself, and dug out the automobile with incredible rapidity. They were doubtless anxious to get back and tell a horse about it. Rebecca West
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. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "Before a war military science seems a real science, like..."
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. Rebecca West

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