"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
― Rebecca West
Topic(s):
Intelligence
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- "Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person’s mind."
- "A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
- "It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."
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- "My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible."― Kate Bosworth
- "There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman."― Carrie Chapman Catt
- "For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity."― Louise Slaughter