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
real study enough
Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.
change easier fit
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
country
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
jobs simple men
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
paradise fool chance
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.
leadership distance numbers
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.
joy sorrow source
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
writing past kind
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.
solitude easy born
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.
past imagination history
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
motivational people journal-writing
People who keep journals have life twice
baby want ifs
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
justice terrible necessary-things
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
jumping half sausage
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.