Jessamyn West

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. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#anything #drill #easier #people #properly

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#feel #nearer #sympathies #than #their

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#almost #future #imagination #much #past

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#come #communicate #different #different world #live

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? ↗

— Jessamyn West

#honest #love #more #offensive #rogue

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

#appreciate #breaking #hearts #irony #joke

A big iron needle stitching the country together. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#country #iron #needle #stitching #together

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

— Jessamyn West

#new #old #old one #want #you

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? ↗

— Jessamyn West

#her #man #measured #my soul #my time

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#necessary #terrible #thing