Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas. Rebecca West More Quotes by Rebecca West More Quotes From Rebecca West Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. Rebecca West certainmusicquiet I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism. Rebecca West elementsdonefeelings A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps. Rebecca West be-carefulcompanycauses ... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients. Rebecca West menbelieveideas Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. Rebecca West cupsessenceart Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause. Rebecca West causesendssecret Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn. Rebecca West flowerheartdoors The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. Rebecca West tendenciestemptedvices The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. Rebecca West votesimplestruggle It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it. Rebecca West monkeyserrorsliterature It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross. Rebecca West agonyforgivingpeople There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die. Rebecca West unendingsuicidalsaws The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds. Rebecca West choiceslawjustice There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. Rebecca West womentalkingpeople If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life. Rebecca West marinetakenpeace It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions. Rebecca West succeeddifferentdesire Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. Rebecca West realwritinglove In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility. Rebecca West england-and-americaeuropemean There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. Rebecca West illusioncommunicationlanguage 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 diesstillspeople
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