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Brief about Jessamyn West: By info that we know Jessamyn West was born at 1902-07-18. And also Jessamyn West is American Author.
Some Jessamyn West's quotes. Goto "Jessamyn West's quotation" section for more.Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Tags: Desert, VegetationThe basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Tags: Acting, Great, HimselfThe West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Tags: Color, Earth, RatherYou read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Tags: Book, Business, EndWriting 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.
Tags: Alone, Family, SocietyA 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.
Tags: Humor, Joke, SenseFiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Tags: Fiction, Imagination, RealityThere 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.
Tags: Between, Ignorance, YoungIt is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Tags: Forgiveness, Mistakes, OthersI've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Tags: Done, Honesty, HurtFaithfulness 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.
Tags: Death, Past, WritingThe sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
Tags: Cannot, Sick, UnderstandA religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Tags: Him, Love, ReligiousGroan and forget it.
Tags: ForgetIf you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
Tags: Able, Real, TellIn their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
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