Jessamyn West Quotes

• Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

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  Courage, Writing, Helpful

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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  Happiness, Truth, Attitude

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

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  Love, Inspiring, Religious

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• Un hueso roto puede curarse, pero la herida que abre una palabra puede supurar para siempre.

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  Broken Heart, Forever, Bones

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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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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  Jobs, Simple, Men

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• 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.

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  Friendship, Being Alone, Writing

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

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  Book, Feelings, Treasure

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• The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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  Pasado, Historia, Imaginación

  Jessamyn West (1966). “A Matter of Time”

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• Hay dos barreras que a menudo impiden la comunicación entre los jóvenes y sus mayores. La primera es que los de mediana edad olvidan que ya no son jóvenes. La segunda es la ignorancia juvenil de que las personas de mediana edad siguen vivas.

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  Communication, Ignorance, Two

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

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  Challenges, Rattlesnakes, Teach

  The Life I Really Lived ch. 2 (1979)

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• One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.

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  Hate, Writing, Evil

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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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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  Nature, Memories, Women

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• La enseñanza es el camino real hacia el aprendizaje.

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  Educación, Enseñanza, Aprendizaje

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

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  Writing, Punishment, Earth

  To See the Dream ch. 1 (1957)

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• I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

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  Jumping, Half, Sausage

  Jessamyn West (1981). “Double discovery: a journey”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Es muy fácil perdonar a los demás sus errores; hace falta más agallas y coraje para perdonarles por haber sido testigos de los tuyos.

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  Forgiveness, Easter, Mistake

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• Nada es tan querido como lo que estás a punto de dejar.

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  Dear God, Dear

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• A good time for laughing is when you can.

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  Inspirar, Divertir, Reír

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• El gusto por la ironía ha evitado que se rompieran más corazones que el sentido del humor, porque hace falta ironía para apreciar la broma que se hace a uno mismo.

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  Lost Love, Heart, Humor

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

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  Writing, Garden, Self

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• I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

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  Hurt, Honesty, Trying

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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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.

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  Writing, Past, Kind

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• Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

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  Farewell, Grieving, Long

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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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  Memories, Rocks, Two

  Jessamyn West (1984). “The state of Stony Lonesome”, Harcourt

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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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  Children, Cat, Animal

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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