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Results of search for Author: Rebecca West - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 19 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

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 sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983), 1913
An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983), The Count and the Castle, 1957
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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

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