Quotes from Israel Zangwill


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    Everything changes but change.

    Change | Changes


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

    Love | Sight | Second


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

    Fool | Christian | Clever


    A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

    Stupid | Wife | Appreciate


    New York is the great stone desert.

    Travel | Great | Desert


    America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

    God | Great | Europe


    It takes two men to make one brother.

    Men | Brother | Takes


    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.

    Superman | Perhaps | Coming


    Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

    Christian | Spoiled | Scratch


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

    Religion | Aspiration


    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.

    Past | Repetition | Prison


    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.

    Love | Passion | Capable


       

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