Jessamyn West Quotes
Top 41 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jessamyn West
Jessamyn West Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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.
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
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.
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?
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.
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.
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.