3 December 2020 Jessamyn West The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
3 December 2020 Jessamyn West In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
3 December 2020 Jessamyn West Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.
3 December 2020 Jessamyn West Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
3 December 2020 Jessamyn West It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
3 December 2020 Jessamyn West A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
