"A copy of the universe is not what……" — Rebecca West
"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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85 Quotes by Rebecca West
Rebecca West has 85 quotes on this site.
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…
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More Ample Quotes
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We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job…
— Joe Baca
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear…
— Dick Cheney
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It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is…
— Victor Niederhoffer
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very…
— Seneca the Younger
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Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which…
— James Anthony Froude
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The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
— Martin Luther
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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result…
— Barry Goldwater
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