Jessamyn West Quotes
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.
Citations
West, Jessamyn. The Massacre at Fall Creek. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
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Mary Jessamyn West was an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945). A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters (Litt.D) degree from Whittier College in 1946. She received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1975.