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Quote by Jessamyn West
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writ

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. – Jessamyn West

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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? – Jessamyn West

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

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. – Wendell Berry

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Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. – Cat Stevens

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Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. – J.J. Furnas

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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. – Elbert Hubbard

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When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. – Author Unknown

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Thats what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think its great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young. – Joe Nichols

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