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Rebecca West Quotes

1892–1983 England

Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.

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If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anybody bow down or stand up to Him. I have often a suspicion God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

The Paris Review interview (1981)

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

The Paris Review interview (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rebecca West (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.