3 Quotes & Sayings By Jane Avrich

Jane Avrich was born in England in 1922. She emigrated to Australia in the late 1930s and then to the United States, where she taught English at Rutgers University until her retirement in 1989. During that time, she wrote numerous articles for newspapers and magazines on topics ranging from the influence of the Russian Revolution on European writers, to life among the Gypsies in Eastern Europe, to twentieth-century American fiction. Her books include Russia's Civilizing Mission: The Evolution of International Cultural Relations in Eurasia (Cornell University Press, 1970); A World Elsewhere: Romance, Revolution, and Death in Revolution-Ravaged Russia (Viking Penguin, 1969); The Russian Word (Dover Publications, 1966); and The Noble Dream: The Liberation Struggles of Jews in Russia (Oxford University Press, 1962).

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To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown. Jane Avrich
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Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Something I could only find elsewhere. But just when I started to find it at home, I outfoxed myself and lost it forever. Jane Avrich