Quote by Jessamyn West
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 classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino

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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley

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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution — such call I good books. – Henry David Thoreau

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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. – Jeremy Collier

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Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. – Charles Wesley

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. – Oscar Wilde

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