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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
— Jessamyn West
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
— Jessamyn West
Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
— Jessamyn West
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
— Jessamyn West
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
— Jessamyn West
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
A good time for laughing is when you can.
— Jessamyn West
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
— Jessamyn West
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.
— Jessamyn West
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
— Jessamyn West
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
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
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
— Jessamyn West
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
With enough libraries, all content is free.
— Jessamyn West
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.
— 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
Groan and forget it.
— Jessamyn West
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.
— Jessamyn West
People who keep journals have life twice.
— Jessamyn West
I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
— Jessamyn West
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
At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.
— Jessamyn West
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
— Jessamyn West
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
— Jessamyn West
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
— Jessamyn West
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
— Jessamyn West
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
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
— Jessamyn West
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
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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
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
— Jessamyn West