Nella Larsen Professions : Novelist Born : April 13, 1891 Died : March 30, 1964 Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by Nella Larsen Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it Nella Larsen reader imagination use Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure. Nella Larsen hypocrisy lying people What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins? Nella Larsen sin bears helping These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions. Nella Larsen laughter pride spiritual Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems. Nella Larsen kindness religion thinking The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well. Nella Larsen folks cake trouble Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped. Nella Larsen examination names needs that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it. Nella Larsen money want people Authors do not supply imaginations. Nella Larsen imagination If sex isn't a joke, what is it? Nella Larsen jokes ifs sex Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. Nella Larsen children people world I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. Nella Larsen being-a-mother mother thinking New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody. Nella Larsen new-york knows world I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me. Nella Larsen persons feels world Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase. Nella Larsen phrases Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
