Jessamyn West Quotes
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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.
Jessamyn West
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Author Details:
Topic:
Humor Quotes
Type:
Author Quotes
Category:
American Author Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 18, 1902
Date of Death:
February 23, 1984
Nationality:
American
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Select Jessamyn West Quotations:
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Jessamyn West
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
Jessamyn West
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
Jessamyn West
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Quote Keywords:
Appreciate,
Breaking,
Hearts,
Humor,
Irony,
Joke,
Kept,
More,
Oneself,
Sense,
Takes,
Taste,
Than,
Which
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Dictionary Links:
Appreciate,
Breaking,
Humor,
Irony,
Joke,
Kept,
More,
Oneself,
Sense,
Taste,
Than,
Which
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All Jessamyn West Quotations:
A big iron needle stitching the...
A broken bone can heal, but...
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches...
A religious awakening which does not...
A taste for irony has kept...
Faithfulness to the past can be...
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Groan and forget it.
I've done more harm by the...
If you train people properly, they...
If you want a baby, have...
In my time and neighborhood (and...
In their sympathies, children feel nearer...
It is very east to forgive...
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
Memory is a magnet. It will...
Nothing is so dear as what...
Only a fool would refuse to...
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or...
Talent is helpful in writing, but...
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
The basic essential of a great...
The past is really almost as...
The sick soon come to understand...
The source of one's joy is...
The West is color. Its colors...
There are two barriers that often...
We can love an honest rogue...
We want the facts to fit...
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family...
You read a book from beginning...
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