It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. Fannie Hurst More Quotes by Fannie Hurst More Quotes From Fannie Hurst I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. Fannie Hurst not-happy unhappy writing A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. Fannie Hurst women half men 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. Fannie Hurst radiation light giving Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war. Fannie Hurst men war art I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not. Fannie Hurst regret done 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. Fannie Hurst divorce army men A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative. Fannie Hurst marriage winning believe Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. Fannie Hurst one-thing names Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. Fannie Hurst lots-of-money people thinking 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. Fannie Hurst hate home war Family. A snug kind of word. Fannie Hurst family kind 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. Fannie Hurst struggle men war [Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah. Fannie Hurst mother wish 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. Fannie Hurst come-up quality would-be Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings. Fannie Hurst momentum sweat success 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. Fannie Hurst bridges writing jobs 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. Fannie Hurst criticism mind letters Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles. Fannie Hurst icicles nervous hands The creative writer is usually captive to his next book. Fannie Hurst next creative book Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do. Fannie Hurst perseverance struggle book
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