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Will Eisner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1978
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Mel: I’m not having an anxiety attack. I’m a little tense.
Edna:Why don’t you take a Valium?
Mel: I took one.
Edna:Then take another one.
Mel: I took another one. They don’t work any more. [He…
Contributor:
Neil Simon
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1970
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I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and…
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Rosa Schneiderman
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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Yakhne-Brayne [Reading slowly and with difficulty so that the words run together in a monotone.]:“And God caused the Temple to be destroyed and said, ‘I will remember your sins and you will devour…
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David Pinski
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1906
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The figurative underworld of a great city has no ventilation, housing or lighting problems. Rooks and crooks who live in the putrid air of crime are not denied the light of day, even though they…
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Fannie Hurst
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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The street lamps of the Old Town began to flare out in preparation for the night. And soon the yellow gas-lights shone in the shop windows too, and outside the little…
Contributor:
Sholem Asch
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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In an air-shaft so narrow that you could touch the next wall with your bare hands, Hanneh Breineh leaned out and knocked on her neighbor’s window.
“Can you loan me your wash-boiler for the clothes?”…
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Anzia Yezierska
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1919
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Paul Strand
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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Always, by the time the humid, breathless, summer night lifted its veil and a quiet, rosy dawn emerged, when some glimmers of soft, opaque light began to filter through the dried muddy, dusty window…
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Dovid Mitzmacher
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926
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One year later, a Sunday afternoon. The front room. jacob is giving his son mordecai [uncle morty] a haircut, newspapers spread around the base of the chair. moe is reading a newspaper…
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Clifford Odets
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935