"There was a definite process by which one……" — Rebecca West
"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 a time."
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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 Definite Quotes
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs…
— Ruth Benedict
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Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any…
— Christina Aguilera
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most…
— Anton Webern
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation,…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power…
— Roderick Haig-Brown
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give…
— Maxwell Maltz
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It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that…
— Oswald Chambers
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I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to…
— Jurgen Habermas
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