Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.


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He who hesitates is last.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
MAE WEST
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is ...
CORNEL WEST
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST
Sex is an emotion in motion.
MAE WEST
Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
MAE WEST
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
MAE WEST
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
MAE WEST
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
MAE WEST
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
MAE WEST
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST
I'm single because I was born that way.
MAE WEST
I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST
I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
MAE WEST
She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent...
REBECCA WEST
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
MAE WEST
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST
When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
MAE WEST
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p...
REBECCA WEST
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j...
REBECCA WEST
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di...
REBECCA WEST
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
NATHANAEL WEST
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
REBECCA WEST