You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Birth: | 21st December, 1892 |
Death: | 15th March, 1983 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Writer |
Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman.
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