Monday, November 1, 2010

Meandering around . . .

Today is the birthday of Sholem Asch (November 1, 1880 - July 10, 1957), novelist, dramatist, and essayist.

"It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say."
- Sholem Asch

"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."
- Sholem Asch

"Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no matter how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh."
- Sholem Asch

"An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision."
- Sholem Asch

"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."
- Sholem Asch

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