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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?

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Victory is a matter of chance; but truth, if a man so elects, he can have at any time.

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Everett was chiefly a romanticist, and I chiefly a sentimentalist. One looks to the future; the other to the past; and the present, on the unlikely chance that both ever happen to be in it at the same time, is, under such circumstances, foredoomed to be disappointing.

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Christmas, like love, was a mystery. Time and again it might disappoint, but like love only the promises of the Christmas to come, never the disappointments of those past, seemed real.

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You can no more put a sense of time into a man who doesn't have it than you can put tides in a pond.

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The tragedy of our time is not that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted. The tragedy is that we do not know what we like until we are told by our advertisers and entertainers.

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West

Born: July 18, 1902
Died: February 23, 1984 (aged 81)
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