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Fannie Hurst foi uma romancista estado-unidense. Apesar de seus livros não serem muito lembrados hoje em dia, durante sua vida seus mais famosos romances foram Stardust , Lummox , A President is Born , Back Street e Imitation of Life . Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Outubro 1889 – 23. Fevereiro 1968
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Fannie Hurst: Frases em inglês

“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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Lummox (1923)

“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.”

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Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

“Do you know it is said that on the Desert of Sahara, the slope of Sorrento, and the marble of Fifth Avenue the sun can shine whitest? There is an iridescence to its glittering on bleached sand, blue bay, and Carrara façade that is sheer light distilled to its utmost.”

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Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

“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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Fonte: 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.”

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Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

“A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.”

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Fonte: From speech at the National Conference of Women sponsored by “The New York Times.” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/07/twice-good/#return-note-437251-1 Beth Blair. Women Will Have New World Status, Miami Daily News, April 27 1943, page 11A, Column 5.