“ It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
“ We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. Jessamyn West
“ Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. Jessamyn West
“ It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
“ A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Jessamyn West
“ There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is y… Jessamyn West
“ It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
“ Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. Jessamyn West
“ 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? Jessamyn West
“ Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaki… Jessamyn West
“ Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can… Jessamyn West
