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Jessamyn West Quotes

d. 1984 United States

Jessamyn West (July 18, 1902 – February 23, 1984) was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945).

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Also known as: Jessamyn West, West, Jessamyn

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

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

I never meet anyone nowadays who admits to having had a happy childhood. Everyone appears to think happiness betokens a lack of sensitivity.

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.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

To See the Dream (1956)

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?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jessamyn West (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.