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There is no life that does not contribute to history. One added to one is the eternal abundance...

Dorothy West

If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

Dorothy West

It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.

Dorothy West

On his side of the bed Mr. Judson began to conduct a full-scale orchestra, and every instrument had sat out in the rain.

Dorothy West

She had not learned the pitiable wrongs of living for one's child.

Dorothy West

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

Dorothy West

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

Dorothy West

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

Dorothy West

Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges.

Dorothy West

Dorothy West

Dorothy West

Born: June 2, 1907

Died: August 16, 1998 (aged 91)

Bio: Dorothy West was a novelist and short story writer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her novel The Living Is Easy, as well as many other short stories and essays, about the life of an upper-class black family.

Known for:

The Wedding (1995)
The Living is Easy (1948)

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