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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. ↗

— Rebecca West

#because #destruction #hypocrisy #likely #more

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difference #idiots #lunatics #main #men

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

— Rebecca West

#clumsy #gestures #imperfect #international #knowledge

He is every other inch a gentleman. ↗

— Rebecca West

#gentleman #inch #other

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. ↗

— Rebecca West

#even #having #into #likes #nobody

I don't follow politics much. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#i #much #politics

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

— Rebecca West

#difference #hard #history #skunk #smell

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ↗

— Rebecca West

#challenge #filling #journalism #meet #space

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. ↗

— Rebecca West

#affairs #anybody #biography #considers #difficult

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ↗

— Rebecca West

#differentiate #doormat #express #feminist #i