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You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up. ↗

— Randy West

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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ↗

— Rebecca West

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

— Rebecca West

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

— Rebecca West

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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. ↗

— Rebecca West

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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

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

— Rebecca West

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

— Rebecca West

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

— Rebecca West

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I write books to find out about things. ↗

— Rebecca West

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