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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My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.
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And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
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You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.
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My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. ... In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.
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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.
