Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca WestIf it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
Rebecca WestThere is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca Westworks of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.
Rebecca West