Ocupation: Author
Life: December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983
Birthday: December 21
Death: March 15
... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.
source: Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”
topic: Happy, Laughter, Guarantees That, Happy Laughter