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Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

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Cicely (changed to Cicily) Isabel Fairfield

Cicely (changed to Cicily) Isabel Fairfield (December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983), better known by her pen name Dame Rebecca West, DBE, was a British-Irish suffragist and writer famous for her novels, literary criticism, travel literature and for her relationship with H. G. Wells. A prolific, protean author, she wrote for The New Yorker , The New Republic , The Sunday Telegraph , and The New York Herald Tribune . She also was an important correspondent for The Bookman .

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