"Time spent in a casino is time given……" — Rebecca West
"Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will."
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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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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed…
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With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of…
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional…
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I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.
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What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino…
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Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the…
— Eric Kierans
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When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it…
— James Packer
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We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there…
— Paul Dini
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I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.
— Tia Carrere
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Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was…
— George Lopez
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— Wanda Sykes
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
— Ian Fleming
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