Zona Gale Quotes

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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

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Loving, like prayer, is a power as a well as a process. It is curative. It is creative.

Zona Gale

When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.

Zona Gale

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

Zona Gale

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.

Zona Gale

Zona Gale

Zona Gale

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Born: August 26, 1874

Died: December 27, 1938 (aged 64)

Bio: Zona Gale was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.

Known for:

Miss Lulu Bett
Friendship Village (1908)
The loves of Pelleas and Etarre (1907)
Mothers to men (1911)
A daughter of the morning (1917)

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