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Rebecca West

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."

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"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
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"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
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"I write books to find out about things."
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"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
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