Jessamyn West Quotes
To meet at all, one must open one's eyes to another; and there is no true conversation, no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
Pleasure in irony, either in your own life or in what you read, is an ego trip. I know what others do not.
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. .
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye-centered, so appearance besotted.
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.