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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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Jessamyn West
screenwriter, novelist, writer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1902 – 1984
Mary Jessamyn West was an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945). A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters (Litt.D) degree from Whittier College in 1946. She received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1975.
All Quotes by Jessamyn West
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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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.
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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.
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