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Mary Jessamyn West (July 18, 1902 - February 23, 1984) was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945)

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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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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

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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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It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

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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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People who keep journals have life twice.

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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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