Irish - Author | December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983
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
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Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
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Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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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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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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