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Jessamyn West Quotes

American - Author | July 18, 1902 - February 23, 1984

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.

Past Death Words Writing Free You

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Learning Road Royal Teaching

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Anger Broken Bone Forever Word Heal

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

Nature Memory Will Magnet Hold Pull

Groan and forget it.

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.

Communication Ignorance Alive Young

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

Honesty Hurt Trying Done More Harm

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

Love Him To Love Awakening Awaken

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

Together Country Iron Big Needle

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

You Nothing Bite Rattlesnake Teaches

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Joy Sorrow Source Often Also

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Imagination Reality Fiction Truths

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