Jessamyn West quotes
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“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.”
-- Jessamyn WestSource : Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand
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“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
-- Jessamyn WestSource : Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”
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“A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.”
-- Jessamyn West#Inspiring Quotes #Religious Quotes #Inspirational Love Quotes
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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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“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 WestSource : Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”
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“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.”
-- Jessamyn WestSource : Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt
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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 rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.”
-- Jessamyn WestSource : The Life I Really Lived ch. 2 (1979)
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“The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.”
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“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.”
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“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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“Teaching is the royal road to learning.”
-- Jessamyn WestSource : Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt
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“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.”
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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.”
-- Jessamyn WestSource : Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”
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