Jessamyn West Quotes

Jessamyn West
American Author
Born: Jul 18, 1902
Died: Feb 23, 1984
More Nothing Past Will Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. Jessamyn West
Broken Anger Word Bone Wound Opens Heal Fester Forever
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West
Work Future History Past Imagination Almost Much Really
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
Change Easier Facts Fit Than Preconceptions Want Ignore
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. Jessamyn West
Communicate World Live Sick Soon Come Well Understand Different Cannot Different World Two
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. Jessamyn West
Ignorance Communication First Young Alive Prevent Fact Between Longer Still Forgetfulness Often Middle Middle-Aged Aged Elders Themselves Youthful Barriers Second Two
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. Jessamyn West
You Nothing Bite Rattlesnake Teaches
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. Jessamyn West
You Business Book Beginning Everything Way Run Must Reach Read Opposite End Then Start
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 undertaking. Jessamyn West
Savage Alone Family Natural Writing Enemies Society Complete Slightly Solitary Must Writer He Occupation Undertaking Friends Sustain
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
Sense Of Humor Humor Joke Sense Oneself More Takes Than Hearts Taste Irony Which Breaking Kept Appreciate
Groan and forget it. Jessamyn West
Forget
A big iron needle stitching the country together. Jessamyn West
Together Country Big Stitching Iron Needle
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. Jessamyn West
You People Will Easier Tell Able Properly Drill Real Train Real Thing Anything Thing
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow. Jessamyn West
Joy Also Sorrow Source Often
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Jessamyn West
Love Vain Sleeper Religious Him Does Which To Love Awaken Awakening

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