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Quote by Jessamyn West
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – 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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Humor
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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Books

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare. – Kenko Yoshida

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Books

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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in todays society. – Samantha Morton

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. – Giorgio Armani

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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds. – Thurgood Marshall

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An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. – Bergen Evans, “A Tale of a Tub,” The Natural History of Nonsense

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