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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Category: Censorship Author: Rebecca West
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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.
Category: Feminism Author: Rebecca West
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
Category: History Author: Rebecca West
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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.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Rebecca West Source: The Strange Necessity
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Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
Category: Media and Journalism Author: Rebecca West
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He is every other inch a gentleman.
Category: Men Author: Rebecca West
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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.
Category: Pleasure Author: Rebecca West
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Category: Speaking Author: Rebecca West
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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.
Category: Truth Author: Rebecca West
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