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Jessamyn West
Profession : Author
Birth : July 18, 1902
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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.
Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
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.
Jessamyn West
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
Jessamyn West
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
Jessamyn West
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Jessamyn West
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Jessamyn West
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
Jessamyn West
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.
Jessamyn West
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West
Groan and forget it.
Jessamyn West
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
Jessamyn West
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Jessamyn West
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Jessamyn West
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Jessamyn West
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Jessamyn West
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Jessamyn West
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
Jessamyn West
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