You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood — and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
Quotations by:
West, Jessamyn
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 (1902-1984) American writer, Quaker
The Quaker Reader, Introduction (1962)
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West (1902-1984) American writer, Quaker
To See the Dream, pt. 1 (1956)