"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?"
-Jessamyn West
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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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"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
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"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
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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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