Rebecca West
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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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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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
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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.
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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.