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Rebecca West

"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."

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"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."

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"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."

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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
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"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
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