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Jessamyn West Quotes

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

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

Work Future History Imagination Past

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Children Feel Animals Than Nearer

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

Live World Sick Understand Two Well

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

Animal Colors Color Earth Sunlight

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Great Acting Actor Basic He Himself

You 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.

Business Beginning Start Book End

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Change Facts Ignore Want Fit Easier

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.

Family Alone Writing Society Friends

A 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.

Humor Appreciate Sense Of Humor More

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

Talent Writing Helpful Guts

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Forgiveness Mistakes Grit Others Own

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Baby You New Want Old Old One

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