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Rebecca West Quote: “Allowed to cast themselves for great tragic roles, they were experiencing the exhilaration felt by great tragic actors. It was not lack of control, lack of taste, lack of knowledge that accounted for permission of what was not permitted in the West. Rather was it the reverse. Our people could not have handled patients full of the dangerous thoughts of death and love; these people had such resources that they did not need to empty their patients of such freight.”

151. “Allowed to cast themselves for great tragic roles, they were experiencing the exhilaration felt by great tragic actors. It was not lack of control, lack of taste, lack of knowledge that accounted for permission of what was not permitted in the West. Rather was it the reverse. Our people could not have handled patients full of the dangerous thoughts of death and love; these people had such resources that they did not need to empty their patients of such freight.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.”

152. “Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.”

153. “Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “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.”

154. “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.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.”

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

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Rebecca West Quote: “The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.”

156. “The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.”

157. “There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.”

158. “Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “It isn’t only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”

159. “It isn’t only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.”

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

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Rebecca West Quote: “Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.”

161. “Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.”

162. “Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”

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

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Rebecca West Quote: “That taught me a lesson I’ve always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.”

164. “That taught me a lesson I’ve always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”

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

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Rebecca West Quote: “Her outflung hand turned over in the air. The gesture it described was infinitesimal, but it made Corrie draw in his breath and for the first time consider the possibility that perhaps the final emotion he might feel for his wife was hate. -Life Sentence.”

166. “Her outflung hand turned over in the air. The gesture it described was infinitesimal, but it made Corrie draw in his breath and for the first time consider the possibility that perhaps the final emotion he might feel for his wife was hate. -Life Sentence.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.”

167. “The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.”

168. “If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “I’ve never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?”

169. “I’ve never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?”

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Rebecca West Quote: “I prayed and read the Bible, but I couldn’t get any help. You don’t notice how little there is in the Bible really till you go to it for help.”

170. “I prayed and read the Bible, but I couldn’t get any help. You don’t notice how little there is in the Bible really till you go to it for help.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “I find that this always happens when I try to interrupt Slavs who are quarreling. They draw all the energy out of the air by the passion of their debate, so that anything outside its orbit can only flutter trivially.”

171. “I find that this always happens when I try to interrupt Slavs who are quarreling. They draw all the energy out of the air by the passion of their debate, so that anything outside its orbit can only flutter trivially.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One’s whole life depends on one’s looks but one mayn’t speak of one’s own beauty.”

172. “That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One’s whole life depends on one’s looks but one mayn’t speak of one’s own beauty.”

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