“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.”
— Jessamyn West
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“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
— Jessamyn West
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Category: imagination
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“Teaching is the royal road to learning.”
— Jessamyn West
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Category: learning
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“It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
— Jessamyn West
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Category: forgiveness
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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.”
— Jessamyn West
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Category: communication
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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.”
— Jessamyn West
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Category: humor
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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
— Jessamyn West
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Category: history
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“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.”
— Jessamyn West
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Category: death
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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
— Jessamyn West
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Category: future
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