“ It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ”
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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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“ 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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“ 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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“ We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. - Jessamyn West. ”
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“ We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. ”
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“ It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ”
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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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“ It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ”
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“ We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. - Jessamyn West. ”
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“ In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has any words for. ”
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“ To meet at all, one must open one's eyes to another; and there is no true conversation, no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other. ”
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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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“ It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ”
- Jessamyn West- Copy
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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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“ It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ”
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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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“ The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted. ”
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