Tag: Jessamyn West

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success

Jessamyn West | success

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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society

Jessamyn West | society

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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learning

Jessamyn West | learning

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

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Jessamyn West | imagination

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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All Quotes

Jessamyn West | imagination

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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humor

Jessamyn West | humor

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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history

Jessamyn West | history

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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future

Jessamyn West | future

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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forgiveness

Jessamyn West | forgiveness

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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Death

Jessamyn West | death

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.

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