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Rebecca West Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: irish
Birth: December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983

Topics

Life Best Men Strong Hands Dark

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

Government People Ideas Process Up

Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

Police Sometimes Authority Crime Why

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine.

Myself Accept Open Everything Side

I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Love Great Tea Red Think Wine

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

John Quincy Adams

Search America Go Monsters Destroy

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

College Crazy Black Thought Doing

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Nature Hero Law Energy Survival He

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

Vision Best People Team Fashion You

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

Me Seeing Professional Want Made

You got to get it while you can.

You Got Get While

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

Father Children Remember You Lose

I never saw the play, although I heard it was good.

Joseph Force Crater

Good Play Never Saw Heard Although

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