Top 30 Fannie Hurst Quotes
#1. I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.
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#2. It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.
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#3. Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.
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#4. The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ...
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#5. Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.
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#6. 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?
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#7. Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
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#8. It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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#9. Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
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#11. Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.
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#13. One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent.
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#14. Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
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#15. But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.
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#16. The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.
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#17. A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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#18. I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.
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#19. The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.
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#20. Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
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#21. Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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#22. Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
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#23. I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
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#24. The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
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#25. Writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.
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#26. The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.
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#27. [Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.
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#29. There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.
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#30. Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
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