The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
More Quotes from Jessamyn West:
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.Jessamyn West
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
Jessamyn West
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
Jessamyn West
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
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Jessamyn West
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Future Quotes, Imagination & Visualization Quotes, Past Quotes, Work & Career QuotesAmerican POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
Dana Rohrabacher
It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.
Thomas Dolby
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law