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
Asch image source (1)
Peachy Keene: 1905
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Circa 1905. "Central Square -- Keene, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate
glass negative (cropped), Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
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