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Jessamyn-west

Jessamyn West
(American Author)

Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 27
Times favorited:: 18

All quotes by Jessamyn West

(27 quotes found)

Jessamyn West

“I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt”

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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.”

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Jessamyn West

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.”

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“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”

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“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.”

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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”

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Jessamyn West

“A big iron needle stitching the country together.”

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Jessamyn West

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

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Jessamyn West

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

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Jessamyn West

“A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.”

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