The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.
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 WestArt and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.
Rebecca WestInternational relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca WestIt would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
Rebecca West