Jessamyn West Quotes

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.

Jessamyn West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

Jim Evans

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It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.

Joe Frazier

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Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

Andrei A. Gromyko

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We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction.

John Leguizamo

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It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.

Matt Haig

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Even arch-isolationists, such as former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert Taft of Ohio - two of the most right-wing figures in the Republican Party - insisted on being called liberal.

Tom Reiss

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I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

Tom Selleck

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It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

Tom Stoppard

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Feeling 'ugly' or 'unattractive' seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these limitations, and it takes an internal revolution to get rid of them.

Rupi Kaur

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I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Joni Mitchell

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My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

Dr. Dre

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Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.

Brian Grazer

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