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Quote by Jessamyn West
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. - Jes

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West

Other quotes by Jessamyn West

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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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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Jessamyn West
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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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Jessamyn West
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Other Quotes from
Sleep
category

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. – J. G. Ballard

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Sleep

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. – William Golding

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Sleep

In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps. – Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

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Sleep

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes

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Sleep

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There were green infernos and green terrors, yellow jackets and yellow furies, red torrids and red frenzies. – James Street (1903–1954), “The Grains of Paradise”

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Food

Ive always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person. – Julianne Hough

Category:
positive

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. – Diane Wakoski

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Attitude

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that theyre wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because theyre making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right. – Alan Dershowitz

Category:
Money