Jessamyn West Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?”

“The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.”

“A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.”

“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”

“Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.”

“Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.”

“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.”

“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.”

“Groan and forget it.”

“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?”