“Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.” — Jessamyn West People Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone. — Jessamyn West Born Copy Share Image
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing… — Jessamyn West Able Copy Share Image
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. — Jessamyn West Guts Copy Share Image
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. — Jessamyn West Animal Copy Share Image
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two… — Jessamyn West Communicate Copy Share Image
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some… — Jessamyn West My soul Copy Share Image
Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a… — Jessamyn West Enough Copy Share Image
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. — Jessamyn West Chance Copy Share Image
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your… — Jessamyn West Forgiveness Copy Share Image
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility. — Jessamyn West Ecstasy Copy Share Image
“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.” — Jessamyn West Inspirational Copy Share Image
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the… — Jessamyn West Blind Copy Share Image
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact… — Jessamyn West Aging Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then… — Jessamyn West Death Copy Share Image
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow. — Jessamyn West Also Copy Share Image
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. — Jessamyn West Awakening Copy Share Image
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the… — Jessamyn West Humor Copy Share Image
