Dreamers of the Ghetto
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“Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.”
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“The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.”
“In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.”
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“Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.”
Source: Works of Israel Zangwill: Italian fantasies
“As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.”
“Selfishness is the only real atheism.”
Source: Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
“The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.”
Source: Works
“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”
Source: Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
“The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.”
Source: The Voice of Jerusalem
Source: The Voice of Jerusalem
“Everything changes but change”
Source: Works of Israel Zangwill: Italian fantasies
“It takes two men to make one brother.”
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“No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.”
Source: Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
“Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.”
Source: Speeches, Articles, and Letters of Israel Zangwill
Source: Without Prejudice
“Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.”
“There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.”
“Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.”
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Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto
Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto
Source: Works
“What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!”
Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto
“I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!”
Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto
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Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto
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Source: The Melting Pot
“New York is the great stone desert.”
Source: The Melting Pot
Source: From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays : Three Playscripts