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In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

Rebecca West
Dream, Reading, Passion

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

Rebecca West
Law, Looks, Magazines
Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Rebecca West
Oysters, Palate, Please
Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.484, Open Road Media

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

Rebecca West
Real, War, Lying
Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

Rebecca West
People, Doe, Faces
Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.12, Open Road Media

I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.

Rebecca West
People, Upholstery, Imagine
"There is nothing like a dame: Dame Rebecca West at ninety". "Vogue" Magazine, February 1983.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

Rebecca West
Blow, Wind, Issues
Rebecca West (2011). “Survivors in Mexico”, p.20, Open Road Media

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Rebecca West
Real, War, Glasses
Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

Rebecca West
Sympathy, Running, Hurt
Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.245, Open Road Media

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Rebecca West
Children, Divorce, Men
Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

Rebecca West
Christian, Believe, People

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

Rebecca West
Men, Taste, Great Men
Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.4, Open Road Media

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Rebecca West
Good Life, Fiction, Biographies

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