The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the fut… — Quoted

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

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Jessamyn West

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?

Success

Jessamyn West

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Learning

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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.

Death

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.

Humor