Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word. Rebecca West More Quotes by Rebecca West More Quotes From Rebecca West There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano. Rebecca West men sex moving My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so. Rebecca West writing memories thinking There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being. Rebecca West mystery character To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits. Rebecca West hurt running sympathy Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them. Rebecca West psychology war hands History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious. Rebecca West heredity sometimes history Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting. Rebecca West real home drama Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains. Rebecca West real war lying It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes. Rebecca West survival humans animal Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework. Rebecca West hatred civilization hands 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. Rebecca West faces doe people domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health. Rebecca West quality intellectual rabbits His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth. Rebecca West his-smile teeth real If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange. Rebecca West wife office men I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. Rebecca West known knows writing ... to lovers innumerable things do not matter. Rebecca West lovers matter ... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death. Rebecca West race may death Man is a hating rather than a loving animal. Rebecca West hate animal men ... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time. Rebecca West guarantees-that laughter happy The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy. Rebecca West survival energy principles
