Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.
Rebecca West[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.
Rebecca WestI wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
Rebecca WestNeurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.
Rebecca West