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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.

— Rebecca West The Paris Review interview (1981)

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Art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Socialism is not a bomb thrown at the natural institution of society, but a well-considered medicine for a diseased community.

The word “idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person.

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)

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