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A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. By Mary Antin
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses. By Mary Antin
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. By Mary Antin
I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me. By Mary Antin
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. By Mary Antin
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. By Mary Antin
The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family. By Mary Antin
It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me. By Mary Antin
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. By Mary Antin
I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. By Mary Antin
No, the czar did not want us in the schools. By Mary Antin
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. By Mary Antin
In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. By Mary Antin
The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big. By Mary Antin
Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose. By Mary Antin
There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews. By Mary Antin
What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations. By Mary Antin
