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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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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I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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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.
