Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
– Rebecca West
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- Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. – Rebecca West
- There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. – Rebecca West
- God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West
- Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. – Rebecca West
- Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West
- It’s the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. – Rebecca West
- Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West
- Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West
- We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell
- I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. – Hippolyte Taine