“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.”
“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
“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“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.”
Jessamyn West“It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ”
Jessamyn West“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
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. ”
Jessamyn West“Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.”
Jessamyn West“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“Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.”
Jessamyn West“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
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