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| Rebecca West
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. He is every other inch a gentleman. He was every other inch a gentleman. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time. Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. 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. Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. |
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