Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause. Rebecca West More Quotes by Rebecca West More Quotes From Rebecca West The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them. Rebecca West flamesagegrass All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing. Rebecca West westernpaingood-things every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris. Rebecca West parisphilosophyart All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree. Rebecca West smelldegreesdifferences Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. Rebecca West povertybodyspirit If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution. Rebecca West richwealthrevolution Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it. Rebecca West wellsablehumans To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself. Rebecca West littlesmenworld Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world. Rebecca West life-issexworld sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax. Rebecca West catfeelingsmen When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it. Rebecca West armybelievesex 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. Rebecca West passionreadingdream I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. Rebecca West It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. Rebecca West Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs. Rebecca West Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. Rebecca West People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. Rebecca West
