Adah Isaacs Menken quotes

“There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.”
-- Adah Isaacs Menken

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press

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“Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.”
-- Adah Isaacs Menken

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia”, p.71

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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
-- Adah Isaacs Menken

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72

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“Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.”
-- Adah Isaacs Menken

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press

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“Congenial labor is essence of happiness.”

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”

“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.”

“From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.”

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“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well”

“Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”

“Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.”