Jessamyn West Short Quotes

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The superhighway is our true sacrificial altar.

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At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

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It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

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Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

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Character is nothing but habit. Strong when habit is strong.

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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

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

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

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A jokester needs to see two things at once, appearance and reality.

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

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We find what we search for — or, if we don't find it, we become it.

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What's too much for the law to see is too much for the law to require.

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Writing fiction is an almost certain way of making a fool of yourself.

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But February was like a snake with a broken back. It could still bite.

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My story, as Mama would have said, was a short horse and soon curried.

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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

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Bandying words with Jud Clasby would be like trying to outgrunt a pig.

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Love is all things
Both high and low
And nothing else
Can hurt you so.

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His own hair imitated a toupee better than any toupee ever imitated hair.

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The words a man speaks are always more comforting than the words he hears.

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The body's language is stronger than sounds shaped by the tongue and teeth.

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Lawyers' work required sharp brains, strong vocal chords, and an iron butt.

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We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

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Opal lived in her house like an egg in a shoe box, curves enhancing corners.

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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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The born traveler shouldn't be a besotted reader. Traveling interrupts reading.

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A little money's like a little snow, Lucy. Unless it's added to, it melts away.

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