24 Quotations by Jessamyn West
- 1. A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
- 2. A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain
- 3. A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to ap ...
- 4. Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
- 5. Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- 6. Groan and forget it.
- 7. I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
- 8. If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, t ...
- 9. If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
- 10. In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them ...
- 11. It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
- 12. It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for ...
- 13. Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
- 14. People who keep journals have life twice.
- 15. Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
- 16. Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
- 17. Teaching is the royal road to learning.
- 18. The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
- 19. The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
- 20. The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted.
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