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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
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It is easy to write a check if you have enough money in the bank, and writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
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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.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.
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Born:
November 1, 1880
Died:
July 10, 1957
(aged 76)
Bio:
Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Asch or simply Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language that settled in the United States.
Known for:
The Nazarene (1939)
Uncle Moses (1920)
East River (1946)
The Apostle (1943)
Three Cities: A Novel
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