Israel Zangwill Quotes - Page 2

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• Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

  Israel Zangwill

  Real, Religion, Atheism

  Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria

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• New York is the great stone desert.

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  New York, Desert, Stones

  Israel Zangwill (2015). “The Melting Pot”, p.109, Israel Zangwill

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• The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

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  True Love, Funny Relationship, Love Is

  Israel Zangwill (1925). “Works”

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• Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

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  Men, Bulls, Fame

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “Works of Israel Zangwill: Italian fantasies”

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• No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

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  Christian, Clever, Men

  Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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• How full and rich a world
  Theirs to inhabit is--
  Sweet scent of grass and bloom,
  Playmates' glad symphony,
  Cool touch of western wind,
  Sunshine's divine caress.
  How should they know or feel
  They are in darkness?
  But, oh, the miracle!
  If a Redeemer came,
  Laid finger on their eyes--
  One touch and what a world,
  New-born in loveliness!

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  Sweet, Children, Eye

  Israel Zangwill (1903). “Blind Children”

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• [T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

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  Book, Soul, Censorship

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.560, Library of Alexandria

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• ...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.

  Israel Zangwill

  Art, Philosophy, Humorous

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.551, Library of Alexandria

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• O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

  Israel Zangwill

  Children, Father, Simple

  Israel Zangwill (1925). “Works”

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• In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

  Israel Zangwill

  Love, Life, Passion

  Israel Zangwill (1893). “Without Prejudice”, p.311, Library of Alexandria

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• I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

  Israel Zangwill

  Hate, Poetry, Glitter

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.560, Library of Alexandria

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• Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

  Israel Zangwill

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Children of the Ghetto bk. 2, ch. 6 (1892)

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• Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

  Israel Zangwill

  Editors, Names, Watches

  Israel Zangwill (1905). “The Celibates' Club: Being the United Stories of The Bachelors' Club and The Old Maids' Club”

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