Jessamyn West Quotes

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jessamyn West

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

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.

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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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.

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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Teaching is the royal road to learning.

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