Best Quotes by Jessamyn West (Top 10)
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
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People who keep journals have life twice
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More Jessamyn West Quotes
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Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don't have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.
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Groan and forget it
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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
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Teaching is the royal road to learning.
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Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
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