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# Josephine Herbst

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Josephine Herbst was an American writer and journalist, active from 1923 to near the time of her death. She was a radical with communist leanings, who "incorporate\[d\] the philosophy of socialism into her fiction" and "aligned herself with the political Left". She wrote "proletarian novels" conceived

##  Quotes by Josephine Herbst

> [The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-herbst/the-law-is-not-abstract-impartially-arbitrating-between-conflicting/)

[Josephine Herbst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-herbst/)

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> [The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-herbst/the-world-comes-second-hand-fifth-hand-to-us-and-the-illusion-that-it/)

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> [No one ever understood disaster until it came.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-herbst/no-one-ever-understood-disaster-until-it-came/)

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