Quote by Rebecca West
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on

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

Other quotes by Rebecca West

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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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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Music
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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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Trust
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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Experience

The act of writing… is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think thats the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books. – Jodi Picoult

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Experience

Yes, Ive been trepanned. Thats quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain. – Keith Richards

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Experience

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. – Gloria Swanson

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Experience

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Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself. – Scottish Proverb

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Mistakes

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. – Dante Alighieri

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Beauty

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar. – Trevor Nunn

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teacher

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile. – Adriana Lima

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smile