"Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul."

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Source : "Hungry Hearts and Other Stories" by Anzia Yezierska, ("How I Found America", pt. 3), 1920.

Anzia Yezierska

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“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds... But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.”
“Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run”
“Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.”
“Don’t make it sound like I laughed because I was troubled or inconvenienced or put out. I don’t want them to read anything into it. But if you want to say that I laughed, I think that would be a good answer.”

Source : "Zelda Producer On Majora's Mask Remake: 'say That I Laughed'" By Andrew Goldfarb, www.ign.com. September 12, 2013.
“Everybody wants ta get inta da act!”

Source : "Billboard" Magazine, (p. 126), April 23, 1949.
“"You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-"* You'll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior code, on the need for some sort of ethical system. Even the crooks count on "honor among thieves," and countries actually wage war according to certain rules. On the job and in the rest of our day-to-day living, we each need a "code for the road."”
“Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.”
“I have as much pink as you can have. I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.”

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