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"I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything."
"The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."
"Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction."
Explore more quotes by Jessamyn West
"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."
"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
"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."
"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."
"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
"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."
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