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

—Rebecca West

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About Rebecca West

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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...

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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

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

—Rebecca West

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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

Desire creates the power.

—Rebecca West

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

—Rebecca West

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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

—André Maurois

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All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the green earth—you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent—but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he's going to treat you like sports fish.

—Steve Harvey in Think Like a Man

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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

—William Shakespeare

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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