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Jessamyn West Quotes

«A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever»
Author: Jessamyn West (Writer) | About: Words | Keywords: fester, festering, festers
«Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.»
Author: Jessamyn West (Writer) | About: Memory | Keywords: The Magnet
«A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.»
«The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.»
«If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential: steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done.»
«Justice is a terrible but necessary thing»
Author: Jessamyn West (Writer) | About: Justice
«In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.»
«Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.»
«Teaching is the royal road to learning.»
«Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.»

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