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Rebecca West

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

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Donna Grant

"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."

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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."

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Donna Grant

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

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"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."

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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

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Donna Grant

"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."

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"In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like."

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"Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar."

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"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."

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"Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad."

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Rebecca West
"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."

Will

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Rebecca West
"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."

Trust

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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."

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Rebecca West
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

People

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Rebecca West
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

Art

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Rebecca West
"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."

Music

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Rebecca West
"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."

Man

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Rebecca West
"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

People

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Rebecca West
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."

Communication

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

Being

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