Jessamyn West Quotes
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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Women are sacred.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Her voice had a thrill in it like music, frosty music.
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I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended
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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.
