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Authors
Israel Zangwill
English
Novelist
About the author
Everything changes but change.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Change
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#God
#Europe
#America
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Religion
#Atheism
#Selfishness
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Wife
#Man
#Cleverness
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Love
#First
#Sight
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Play
#Passion
#Opera
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Christian
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Will
#American
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Christian
#Fool
New York is the great stone desert.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
It takes two men to make one brother.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Men
#Brother
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill,
English
Novelist
#Past
#Prison
#Repetition
#Danger
#Imitation
#Inspiration
#Glamour