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Jessamyn West Quotes

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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don’t baby the old one.  (Jessamyn West Quotes) A good time for laughing is when you can  (Jessamyn West Quotes) Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I’ve been looking for all my life.  (Jessamyn West Quotes) At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy  (Jessamyn West Quotes) People who keep journals have life twice  (Jessamyn West Quotes) In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults  (Jessamyn West Quotes) I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn’t mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.  (Jessamyn West Quotes) Justice is a terrible but necessary thing  (Jessamyn West Quotes) It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable  (Jessamyn West Quotes) The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate  (Jessamyn West Quotes) The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness  (Jessamyn West Quotes) 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 Quotes) Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.  (Jessamyn West Quotes) Nothing is so dear as what you’re about to leave  (Jessamyn West Quotes) The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.  (Jessamyn West Quotes) The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility  (Jessamyn West Quotes) Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.  (Jessamyn West Quotes) Groan and forget it  (Jessamyn West Quotes) The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future  (Jessamyn West Quotes) A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever  (Jessamyn West Quotes) Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary  (Jessamyn West Quotes) A big iron needle stitching the country together  (Jessamyn West Quotes) If you want a baby, have a new one. Don’t baby the old one  (Jessamyn West Quotes) At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy  (Jessamyn West Quotes) A rattlesnake that doesn’t bite teaches you nothing  (Jessamyn West Quotes) Teaching is the royal road to learning  (Jessamyn West Quotes) There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft  (Jessamyn West Quotes) 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 Quotes) We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?  (Jessamyn West Quotes) The source of one’s joy is also often the source of one’s sorrow  (Jessamyn West Quotes)
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