Quote by Rebecca West
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each others nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. – Rebecca West

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – Rebecca West

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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being ones own Trojan horse. – Rebecca West

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You in the West have a problem. You are unsure when you are being lied to, when you are being tricked. We do not suffer from this; and unlike you, we have acquired the skill of reading between the lines. – Zdenek Urbanak

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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot

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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe… the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Ideologies have no heart of their own. Theyre the whores and angels of our striving selves. – John Le Carre

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