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Rebecca West

Rebecca West föddes den 21 desember 1892 och dog den 15 mars 1983 - psuedonym för Cecily Fairfield, engelsk författarinna.
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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Gud

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

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.

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

Varje äkta konstverk måste starta en diskussion mellan konstnären och hans publik.

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

Jobb

I write books to find out about things.

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.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

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

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

Musikk

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

The fear of life which is the beginning of all evil....

Right now, the water just looks dirty, but it is safe.

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