# Quote — Rebecca West, The Harsh Voice

> The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

- Author: [Rebecca West](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-west.md)
- Book: [The Harsh Voice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-west/the-harsh-voice.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rebecca_West#The_Harsh_Voice:_Four_Short_Novels_(1935)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-west/the-harsh-voice/the-point-is-that

## More from this book

> There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-west/the-harsh-voice/there-is-no-such.md)