Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
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.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the... →
Samuel West
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the... →
Timothy West
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a... →
There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.
Russell Westbrook
I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on... →
Paul Westerberg
I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate... →
The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a... →
Celia Weston