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Rebecca West

"I write books to find out about things."

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"I write books to find out about things."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

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"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."

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"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
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"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
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"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
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"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
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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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"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
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