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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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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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.

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

—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

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

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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.

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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

—Steven Weinberg

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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

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