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Quote by Rebecca West
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say a

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. – Rebecca West

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

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communication
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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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Ideology
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. – George MacDonald

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I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me. – Jada Pinkett Smith

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You can never trust what you read. – William Goldman

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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. – E. W. Howe

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For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator. – Cheryl Hines

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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. – Esther Williams

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