Rebecca West Quotes - Page 9

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• To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

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  Sympathy, Running, Hurt

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Suffering

  Rebecca West (2011). “Survivors in Mexico”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

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  Funny, Art, Humor

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

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  Real, War, Lying

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

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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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• In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

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  Dream, Reading, Passion

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• 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.

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  Real, War, Glasses

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  People, Doe, Faces

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

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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.

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  People, Upholstery, Imagine

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

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• All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

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  Good Life, Fiction, Biographies

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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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