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People Quotes by Rebecca West
- Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered…
- I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express…
- I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
- 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…
- 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…
- It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
- It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the…
- There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at…
- Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it.…
- I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
- People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
- Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes.…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle