1903-1984, American Author
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 – [Irony]
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West – [Books and Reading]
I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Jessamyn West – [Truth]
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Jessamyn West – [Parents and Parenting]
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West – [Mistakes]
To meet at all, one must open ones 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.
Jessamyn West – [Listening]