Rebecca West

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. ↗

— Rebecca West

#humanity #itself #more #never #than

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? ↗

— Rebecca West

#composing #each #i #i wonder #just

I write books to find out about things. ↗

— Rebecca West

#books #find #i #i write #out

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

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. ↗

— Rebecca West

#great #great man #james #james joyce #joyce

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 American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difficult #easy #english #more #much

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