Rebecca West

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

— Rebecca West

#clumsy #gestures #imperfect #international #knowledge

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ↗

— Rebecca West

#believe #each #even #everyone #less

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ↗

— Rebecca West

#banned #book #forbid #god #indefensible

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. ↗

— Rebecca West

#certain #great #great music #music #sense

He is every other inch a gentleman. ↗

— Rebecca West

#gentleman #inch #other

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ↗

— Rebecca West

#desires #duty #itself #loyal #master

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ↗

— Rebecca West

#being #horse #like #motherhood #own

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

— Rebecca West

#even #having #into #likes #nobody

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. ↗

— Rebecca West

#art #copy #damned #required #things

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. ↗

— Rebecca West

#example #features #for example #other #tears