A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of h… — Quoted

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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.”

Jessamyn West · Humor

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Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Learning

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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.

Loneliness

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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

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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