Quotes about Jessamyn West

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

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

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

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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

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

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

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Groan and forget it.

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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

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