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Rebecca West

Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Tags: Without, Laugh, Making

Rebecca West

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Tags: Love, Waiting, Heart

Rebecca West

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Tags: Mind, Nothing, Person

Rebecca West

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Tags: Between, Universe, Side

Rebecca West

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Tags: Peace, Happiness, Love

Rebecca West

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Tags: Movies, Short, Seen

Rebecca West

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Tags: Struggle, Soul, Desire

Rebecca West

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Tags: Horse, Motherhood, Strangest

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Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Tags: Lucky, Incredibly

Rebecca West

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Tags: War, Real, Before

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