“We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?”
Jessamyn West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humor
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“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
Jessamyn West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Women born at the turn of the century have been conditioned not to speak openly of their wedding nights. Of other nights in bed with other men they speak not at all. Today a woman having bedded with a great general feels free to tell us that in bed the general could not present arms. Women of my generation would have spared the great general the revelation of this failure.”
Jessamyn West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
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“I never meet anyone nowadays who admits to having had a happy childhood. Everyone appears to think happiness betokens a lack of sensitivity.”
Jessamyn West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.”
Jessamyn West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Jessamyn West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“If you want a baby, have a new one. Don’t baby the old one.”
Jessamyn West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Parenting
