It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
Rebecca West... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.
Rebecca WestFiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
Rebecca WestDestiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.
Rebecca West