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

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Source : Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria

Israel Zangwill

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“The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.”
“I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.”
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
“I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.”
“I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.”
“Basketball is basketball.”
“With six small diamonds for his eyes He walks upon the summer skies, Drawing from his silken blouse The lacework of his dwelling house.”
“I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that”

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