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Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman.

Quotes from Rebecca West

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

—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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Desire creates the power.

—Rebecca West

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

—Rebecca West

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

—Rebecca West

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

—Rebecca West

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

—Rebecca West

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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

—Rebecca West