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

 

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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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.

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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
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

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

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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
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A big iron needle stitching the country together.

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