Jessamyn West - People Quotes

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The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

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Alone, alone, oh! We have been warned about solitary vices. Have solitary pleasures ever been adequately praised? Do many people know that they exist?

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I understand hermits, but not people who can't understand hermits.

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You travel to discover yourself. At home there is known to you only the girl you remember. Who you really have become, you do not know. When you travel, that person emerges: she is mirrored in the faces of people you meet.

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There were clearly two classes of people in the world: those for whom the world was magnified and enriched in words and those who could never find the beautiful world of their living and knowing on any sheet of paper.

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We travel not to discover new lands or new people, but new selves.

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I am sad for people who do not like to be in the sun. It's a free intoxicant.

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Did California cause any of this? No, though it does seem to draw to it people with unusual inclinations.

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Some folk are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

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Birdeen fainted the way other people took a nap. She wouldn't take a rest of her own free will. Nature gave her a rest by letting her lie down unconscious for a few minutes.

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