“Groan and forget it.”— Jessamyn West Related Quotes “Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.”— Edward Gibbon “The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.”— Alexander Pope “Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”— Margaret Lee Runbeck