Quotes by Jessamyn West

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

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"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."

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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."

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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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