Jessamyn West

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#designed #hold #magnet #material #memory

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#dear #leave #nothing #you

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#enter #ever #fool #only #paradise

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#inhabitants #vegetation #without

Teaching is the royal road to learning. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#road #royal #royal road #teaching

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#actor #basic #essential #great #himself

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#joy #often #sorrow #source

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#color #colors #earth #rather #ripeness

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#book #business #end #everything #must

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

#easier #facts #fit #ignore #preconceptions