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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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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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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917

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[R]eading time is still limited no matter how many commitments of work or friendship I am willing to ditch in favor of the pages. – Francis Spufford (b.1964), “Confessions of an English Fiction Eater,” The Child

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English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. – Marilyn Butler

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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