Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

—Jessamyn West

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More quotations from Jessamyn West

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

—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.

—Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

—Jessamyn West

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At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

—Jessamyn West

Every arrival foretells a leave-taking, every birth a death. Yet each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

—Jessamyn West

More quotations tagged with “punishment”

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

—Jeph Jacques

self-esteem punishment

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen

—Robert Ingersoll

prison crime punishment

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

What they don't know is, no matter how they decide, they can't penalize me more than I'm already punishing myself.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

loss punishment self-flagellation

Punishment is directed primarily at the potentially guilty.

—Michel Foucault

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Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.