"Literature must be an analysis of experience and……" — Rebecca West

"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity."

— Rebecca West

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85 Quotes by Rebecca West

Rebecca West has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…

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Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to… — Mary Kay Ash
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' — Arthur Ashe
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to… — Bernard Baruch
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many… — Gary Becker
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for… — Tony Benn
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work… — Russell Brand
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in… — John O. Brennan
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. — Anita Brookner
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example,… — Abdallah II
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? — David Byrne
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate… — Herman Cain

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