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

Quote by Jessamyn West

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Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

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.

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.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

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...

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...

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The...

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The...

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

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...

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...

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...

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.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

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.

Groan and forget it.

Groan and forget it.