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Quotes by Rebecca West

'Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.'

'It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.'

(at the 1962 Edinburgh Festival Writers' conference)

'Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.'

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