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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one st

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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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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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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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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Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become. – Jim Rohn

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. – Thomas A. Edison

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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasnt due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. – Gary Vaynerchuk

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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending. – John Hodgman

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I became a lesbian out of devout Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man and I gave them my share. – Rita Mae Brown

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Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities. – Major Owens

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College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. – George Gobel

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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if were fighting a war on terror. – Bill Kristol

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