"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."
― Jessamyn West
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Death
― Jessamyn West
More From Jessamyn West
- "It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
- "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
- "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."
More In Death
- "However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system."― Kenneth Clarke
- "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."― Nelson Mandela
- "Biography lends to death a new terror."― Oscar Wilde