I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
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MAE WEST There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi... REBECCA WEST But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. REBECCA WEST Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ... REBECCA WEST Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie. MAE WEST You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. MAE WEST Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's... REBECCA WEST It is better to be looked over than overlooked. MAE WEST He is every other inch a gentleman. REBECCA WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to app... JESSAMYN WEST