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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
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Jessamyn West
Age: 81 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 18
Died: 1984
Died: February 22
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Mary 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.
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It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?
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You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
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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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Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
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A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
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It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.
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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.
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The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.
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With enough libraries, all content is free.
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
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To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
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People who keep journals have life twice
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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