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Jessamyn West quotes: In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Jessamyn West quotes: Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

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

Jessamyn West quotes: Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Jessamyn West quotes: Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West quotes: If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

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

Jessamyn West quotes: It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West quotes: We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Jessamyn West quotes: A good time for laughing is when you can.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

Jessamyn West quotes: 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.

Jessamyn West quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West quotes: It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

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

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

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.

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: 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.

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 quotes: The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

Jessamyn West quotes: A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West quotes: In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West quotes: With enough libraries, all content is free.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

Jessamyn West quotes: 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.

Jessamyn West quotes: Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.

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

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.

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: Groan and forget it.

Groan and forget it.

Jessamyn West quotes: 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.

Jessamyn West quotes: Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

Jessamyn West quotes: People who keep journals have life twice.

People who keep journals have life twice.

Jessamyn West quotes: I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West quotes: Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Jessamyn West quotes: Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

Jessamyn West quotes: At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

Jessamyn West quotes: A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jessamyn West quotes: Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Jessamyn West quotes: You can only write about what you don't know, and find out about it in the writing.

You can only write about what you don't know, and find out about it in the writing.

Jessamyn West quotes: It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

Jessamyn West quotes: Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

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

Jessamyn West quotes: A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

Jessamyn West quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Jessamyn West quotes: Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Jessamyn West quotes: I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.

Jessamyn West quotes: A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.