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My heart chokes in me like in a prison! I'm dying for a little love and I got nobody-nobody!" wailed Shenah Pessah, as she looked out of the dismal basement window. (beginning of "Wings")

— Anzia Yezierska Hungry Hearts (1920)

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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Red Ribbon on a White Horse (1950)

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

Hungry Hearts (1920)

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams. (beginning of "The Miracle")

Hungry Hearts (1920)

This is a story with an unhappy ending. And I too have become Americanized enough to be terrified of unhappy endings. Yet I have to drop all my work to write it.

"The world is a wheel always turning."

Hungry Hearts (1920)

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