Groan and forget it.

Quote by Jessamyn West

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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

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

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

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the...

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the...

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in...

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in...

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with...

Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with...

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color -...

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color -...