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Jessamyn West

"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."

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"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."

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Jessamyn West
"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."

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"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."

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"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."

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"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."

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"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing."

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"If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one."

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"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain."

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"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."

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"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."

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"Groan and forget it."

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