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Playwright

Zoe Akins was an American playwright known for her collaborations with Eugene O'Neill, particularly on the play 'Anna Christie', which earned her a Pulitzer Prize. Her work had a significant impact on American theater in the early 20th century.

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Greatness

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“It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.”

Tree Flower Fruit Bitter Exquisite

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“It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.”

Easy Wife Brutal Lady Love Brutal Truth

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“No one can ever help loving anyone.”

Helping

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“To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!”

Easy Impossible Blame Injustice Proof Infamous

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“The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.”

People World Want Made Watches Failing Sour

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“Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.”

Way Trying Art Use Eye Marriage Married Dear

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“Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.”

Seems Young Life Is Prove Good Things Tragic

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“Work alone qualifies us for life.”

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“Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .”

Needs Light Leadership Wealth Darkness Bird Prophet

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“Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.”

Forget Cost Forgiveness Cost Of Living

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About the Author

Born: October 30, 1886
Died: October 29, 1958
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 11

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