The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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 Image
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
... 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 Image
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