An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.


Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)

Rebecca West Quotes

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot...

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot...

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot...

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot...