All Jessamyn West Quotes
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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Imagination
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Jessamyn West
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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
Jessamyn West
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We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
Jessamyn West
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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
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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
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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
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Jessamyn West
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Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Jessamyn West
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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
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Jessamyn West
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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
Jessamyn West
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