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An English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. Cicely Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892–15 March 1983), known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman[disambiguation needed].
Here are some famous quotes by Rebecca West.
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Nothing succeeds like failure.
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.
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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.
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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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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.
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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 as a test of value.
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There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
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Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.