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

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

Other quotes by Jessamyn West

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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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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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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alone
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[W]omen and books should be looked at daily. – Dutch Proverb

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Books

The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang

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Books

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page. – Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

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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

Random Quotes

[T]he ear of jealousy heareth all things. – The Bible (Apocrypha), Wisdom of Solomon 1:10

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Jealousy

All that I know I learned after I was thirty. – Georges Clemenceau

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Experience

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Religion

The dead govern the living. – Auguste Comte

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Tradition