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Quotations by author » Jessamyn West
American Writer, 1902-1984
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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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
CommunicationDisease
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Colors
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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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Facts
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.
Writing
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