Helen Westley Quotes

• poverty ... is very bad for the formation of a personality. ... Not until I knew for certain where my next meal would come from could I give myself up to ignoring that next meal; I could think of other things.

  Helen Westley

  Thinking, Giving, Personality

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• now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

  Helen Westley

  Years, Age, Youth

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• The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

  Helen Westley

  World, Ennui, Conquest

  "The Confessions of Helen Westley" by Djuna Barnes in New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine, September 23, 1917.

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