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

Rebecca West

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

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.

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

Rebecca West

Conversation

Illusion

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

Rebecca West

People

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

Rebecca West

History

Difference

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

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

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.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West

Being

Motherhood

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

Rebecca West

Earth

Wounds

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

Rebecca West

Disaster

Vices

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

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

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