Fannie Hurst - Imitation of Life (1933)

3 Sourced Quotes

View all Fannie Hurst Quotes

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Fannie Hurst

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed?... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

Fannie Hurst

Nigger is a tame-cat word when we uses it ourselves ag'in' ourselves, and a wild-cat word when it comes jumpin' in at us from the outside.

Fannie Hurst