The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
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Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.Jessamyn West
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done.
Jessamyn West
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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