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Dame Rebecca West
: 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."
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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.
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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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Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
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Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
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