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Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

Anzia Yezierska

Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

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About Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.