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Anzia Yezierska quotes: Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: A poor man is a living dead one.

A poor man is a living dead one.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.

If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: In America, money takes the place of God.

In America, money takes the place of God.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple.

There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: For a little while when we were lovers I breathed the air from the high places where love comes from, and I can't no more come down.

For a little while when we were lovers I breathed the air from the high places where love comes from, and I can't no more come down.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Anzia Yezierska quotes: The real thing creates its own poetry.

The real thing creates its own poetry.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: The world is a wheel always turning.

The world is a wheel always turning.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: 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.

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.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it.

I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

Anzia Yezierska quotes: Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

Anzia Yezierska quotes: The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.