Quotes by Jessamyn West

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the...

#Friendship

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

#Humor

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

#Experience, #Mistakes

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

#Forgiveness, #Mistakes

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

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

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Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

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

#Jessamyn West

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

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