music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I was like a sea pulled by two moons. This must mean a boiling of the waters, tides that rushed up and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Goodness is adorable, and it is immortal. When it is trodden down into the earth it springs up again, and human beings… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West Copy Share
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a… — Rebecca West Copy Share
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. — Rebecca West Copy Share
... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period… — Rebecca West Copy Share
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