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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 write books to find out about things. ↗

— Rebecca West

#books #find #i #i write #out

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

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

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. ↗

— Rebecca West

#life #lived #memory #mere #merely

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ↗

— Rebecca West

#cannot #complicated #forgets #learn #man

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die. ↗

— Rebecca West

#die #every #live #unending #us

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

— Rebecca West

#camel #great #great art #intelligence #logical