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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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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

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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. – Jessamyn West

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If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. – Author unknown

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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. – Aharon Appelfeld

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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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Medicine for the soul. – Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

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Random Quotes

That which proves too much, proves nothing! – Proverb

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Persuasion

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Id always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. – Barbara Kruger

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Morning

Dad said that he was prouder of me than hed ever been when I came out. – Randy Harrison

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