Rebecca West Quotes & Quotations

Rebecca West Quotes

» Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

» There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

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

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

» People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

» He is every other inch a gentleman.

» Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

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