Jessamyn West Quotes
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~ Jessamyn West Quote
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
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.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt
~ Jessamyn West Quote
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
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
~ Jessamyn West Quote
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Fiction is a form of writing which reveals truths that reality obscures.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate
~ Jessamyn West Quote
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.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential: steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
~ Jessamyn West Quote
