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«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.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| Keywords:
cutting, cut away, dead hand, Dead Things, go over, lamp, revere, revering
«Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
astrology, astronomy, military, military science
«Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space»
«Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| About:
Motherhood
| Keywords:
motherhood, strangest, Trojan, Trojans, Trojan Horse
«In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| Keywords:
beard, Continent, owner, the continent, venerable, virile, virility
«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.»
«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.»
«Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth»
«It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
disaster, precipitate, precipitated, precipitates, precipitating
«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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