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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By Jessamyn West |
| Quote #1: | "It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own." |
| Quote #2: | "A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain." |
| Quote #3: | "We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." |
| Quote #4: | "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." |
| Quote #5: | "A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever." |
| Quote #6: | "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." |
| Quote #7: | "It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable." |
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