Quotes by 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.”

“Ive done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt”

“To meet at all, one must open ones 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.”

“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they dont it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.”

“The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate”

“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”

“A big iron needle stitching the country together.”

“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.”

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing youre alive.

Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

Groan and forget it.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

If you want a baby have a new one. Dont baby the old one.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

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 furnish.

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.

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 youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.