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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Rebecca West

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Rebecca West

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

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

Rebecca West

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Rebecca West

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Rebecca West

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Rebecca West

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Rebecca West

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Rebecca West

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Rebecca West

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Rebecca West

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Rebecca West

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Rebecca West

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Rebecca West

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Rebecca West

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

I write books to find out about things.

Rebecca West

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Rebecca West

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Rebecca West

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Rebecca West

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rebecca West

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Rebecca West

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

Rebecca West

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Rebecca West

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rebecca West