Nella Larsen Quotes

• Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

  Nella Larsen

  Imagination, Use, Reader

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• Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

  Nella Larsen

  Lying, People, Hypocrisy

  Nella Larsen (2014). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.27, Serpent's Tail

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• These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

  Nella Larsen

  Spiritual, Laughter, Pride

  Nella Larsen (2013). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

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  Bears, Helping, Sin

  Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

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  Kindness, Thinking, Religion

  Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.188, Anchor

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• The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

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  Cake, Trouble, Folks

  Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.

  Nella Larsen

  Names, Needs, Examination

  Nella Larsen (2014). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.55, Serpent's Tail

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• that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

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  Money, People, Want

  Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.

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  New York, World, Knows

  Nella Larsen (2014). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.48, Serpent's Tail

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• Authors do not supply imaginations.

  Nella Larsen

  Imagination

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• Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

  Nella Larsen

  Phrases

  Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• If sex isn't a joke, what is it?

  Nella Larsen

  Sex, Jokes, Ifs

  Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

  Nella Larsen

  World, Feels, Persons

  Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.251, Anchor

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• I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

  Nella Larsen

  Mother, Thinking, Being A Mother

  Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.227, Anchor

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• Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

  Nella Larsen

  Children, People, World

  "The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories".

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