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Samuel Hoffenstein

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American screenwriter (1890-1947)

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Works
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Top works

  • Treasury of humorous verse
  • Year in, you're out
  • Poems in Praise of Pracatically Nothing
  • Vtg Samuel Hoffenstein / Year In, You're Out Signed / Signed Limited 1st Ed, 1930.
  • The Broadway anthology

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1890-10-08
Active to
1947-10-06

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Quotes

  • The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.
  • Four of us together dwell— Two from Heaven and two from Hell; Four of us under the selfsame sky— Love and Death and a Dream and I.
  • When trouble drives me into rhyme, Which is two-thirds of all the time, What peace a thought like this can give— Great is the age in which we live!
  • Oh, how various is the scene Allowed to Man for his demesne!
  • When you’re away, I’m restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only Here’s the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here.
  • You buy some flowers for your table; You tend them tenderly as you’re able; You fetch them water from hither and thither— What thanks do you get for it all? They wither.

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date of birth
1890-10-09
date of death
1947-10-06
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