Jessamyn West Quotes
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.
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Anjali: Oh, wow. I am tripping out that I actually get to work here! Being constantly surrounded by books! Bringing ideas, poems, and manifestoes to the world! How can you stand it?!Jezanna: That reminds me, Lois. The lube shipment just came in.
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As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone.
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Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
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I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.
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A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether the agency's intentions are laudatory.
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I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
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I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.
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You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
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I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I don't think you need a particular day to dedicate to your dad or to make your father or parents feel special. A child should make his or her parents feel special every day and vice versa.
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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
