Jessamyn West
Jessamyn West
Mary Jessamyn Westwas an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion. A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1902
CityVernon, IN
CountryUnited States of America
water people wells
Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.
library enough
With enough libraries, all content is free.
children cat animal
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?
hate writing evil
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.
hate creating mind
I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.
responsibility want emotion
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.
eye listening matter
To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
book feelings treasure
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.
feels
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
rogues saint honest
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
children animal adults
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults
dear
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
animal color vegetables
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
education teaching learning
Teaching is the royal road to learning.