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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
~ 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
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