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Sybille Bedford
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“Modern war, they argued, as it was plain for everyone to see, had become so diabolical, so destructive, so incompatible with ethics, Christian teaching, nineteenth-century thought or mere common sense as to be as unthinkable for men to use against one another as putting one another into a pot to boil and eat. They also saw, being honest men, that very few people anywhere saw anything of the kind.”
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“'Must power always be for destruction?' said Anna. 'That has so far been largely the experience.'”
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“It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.”
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“... when one's young ... everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.”
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“The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?”
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“... public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.”
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“All food is a gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous; the egg no less than the truffle.”
Sybille Bedford, German-born English writer
(1911 - 2006)
Full name: Sybille von Schoenbeck Bedford, O.B.E.