It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
Rebecca WestThere is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca Westa 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 WestA bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.
Rebecca West