Rebecca West

Bekannte Zitate von Rebecca West

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

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

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

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

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

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.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.