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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – 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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Success
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. – Jessamyn West

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communication
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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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Death
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports. – Bern Williams

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Books

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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Books

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Books

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Books

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. – Ted Nugent

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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science. – George Andrew Olah

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