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Jessamyn West Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 18, 1902 - February 23, 1984

Topics

Anger Broken Bone Forever Word Heal

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Love Growing Up Dream Growing My Own

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

Politics I Am Political Want Prime

Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do something funny.

Stellan Skarsgard

Funny Challenge Me Dark Serious

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

School Value Book Black Hobby Penny

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Father Children Food Me Chef Fast

There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules.

Space Thoughts Remember Back Rules

When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'

People Me Saying Think Back Nothing

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.

School Me You Gum Rule Dumbest

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

Charity Want Kind Celebrity Policy

Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she's spent a lifetime doing it.

William J. Clinton

Together Doing Stronger You Know Us

I think the idea that the community you live in is an extension of your family is a really nice thing for people to think about and to wish for in their own lives.

Family Live Community People Think

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.

Dating Jealous Internet Someone You

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