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Rebecca West

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

— Rebecca West art

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West illusion

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

— Rebecca West art

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

— Rebecca West experience

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

— Rebecca West love

I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West time

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

— Rebecca West space

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

— Rebecca West science

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each others nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

— Rebecca West power

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 or a prostitute.

— rebecca west time

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

— rebecca west intelligence

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

— rebecca west society

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

— rebecca west women

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

— rebecca west knowledge

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

— rebecca west truth

He is every other inch a gentleman.

— rebecca west man

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 people

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, or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West time

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed.If I fail, no one will say, She doesnt have what it takes.They will say, Women dont have what it takes.~Clare Boothe Luce 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 door mat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West women

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

— Rebecca West writing

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

— Rebecca West art

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being ones own Trojan horse.

— Rebecca West strange

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

— Rebecca West space

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

— Rebecca West time

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

— Rebecca West life

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

— Rebecca West life

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

— Rebecca West live

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West illusion

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

— Rebecca West experience

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 war

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

— Rebecca West tears

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

— Rebecca West hate

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

— Rebecca West humanity

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 time

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

— Rebecca West people

I write books to find out about things.

— Rebecca West books

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

— Rebecca West virtue

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

— Rebecca West time

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

— Rebecca West joy

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

— Rebecca West art

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

— Rebecca West time

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 reason

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

— Rebecca West art

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 life

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 men

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

— Rebecca West power

It is the souls duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

— Rebecca West soul

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

— Rebecca West music

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

— Rebecca West god

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