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Rebecca West

"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"

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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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"Give light and people will find the way."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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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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"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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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
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"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
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"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
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"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
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