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1889–1968 United States
Fannie Hurst (October 19, 1885 – February 23, 1968) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works were highly popular during the post-World War I era.
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A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.
Typical New-Yorker is the pseudo, half enviously bestowed upon his kind by hinter America.
Humoresque: A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It (1920)
Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.
Lummox (1923)
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
Lummox (1923)
If it means loathing war sufficiently to bear the unpleasant brunt of being branded a coward, I suppose I am a pacifist.
Lummox (1923)
Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
Lummox (1923)
The heart has a resiliency. Strained to breaking, it can contract again. Even the waiting women, Iseult and Penelope, learned, as they sat sorrowing and watching, to sing to the swing of the sea.
Gaslight Sonatas (1918)
Dawn—then a blue, wintry sky, the color and hardness of enamel; and sunshine, bright, yet so far off the eye could stare up to it unsquinting.
Gaslight Sonatas (1918)
Oh—oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?
Lummox (1923)
It was any hotel suite now—uncompromising; leave me or take me.
Gaslight Sonatas (1918)
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