Israel Zangwill Quotes
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Everything changes but change. 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. It takes two men to make one brother. New York is the great stone desert. No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. 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. Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. 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.
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