Jessamyn West Quotes
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
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I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.
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The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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No author ever spar'd a brother.
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
