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I sincerely envy anyone who grew up during the Great Depression sometimes. Can you imagine what it must have been like, living without fear that some power-mad politician would drop a hydrogen bomb down over millions of innocent people?


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REBECCA WEST I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for ...
REBECCA MAKKAI If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a g...
REBECCA WEST It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
REBECCA WEST Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros...
REBECCA WEST When I get a brand new bag, I wear it for months and months.
REBECCA GAYHEART Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
REBECCA WEST Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
REBECCA WEST Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
REBECCA WEST There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is...
REBECCA WEST The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social med...
REBECCA MACKINNON How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h...
REBECCA SOLNIT I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent...
REBECCA WEST I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p...
REBECCA WEST Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j...
REBECCA WEST All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di...
REBECCA WEST Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
REBECCA 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 One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
REBECCA FALLS Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's...
REBECCA WEST He is every other inch a gentleman.
REBECCA WEST Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better...
REBECCA WEST All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sle...
REBECCA WEST Being classy is my teenage rebellion.
REBECCA MCKINSEY Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
REBECCA WEST There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of ...
REBECCA WEST Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from ...
REBECCA WEST It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of...
REBECCA PIDGEON A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
REBECCA WEST There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
REBECCA MACKINNON My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for g...
REBECCA LOBO Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe ...
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