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Mary Antin quotes: I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

Mary Antin quotes: It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Mary Antin quotes: 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.

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.

Mary Antin quotes: 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.

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.

Mary Antin quotes: The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

Mary Antin quotes: Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Mary Antin quotes: What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

Mary Antin quotes: No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

Mary Antin quotes: There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

Mary Antin quotes: The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

Mary Antin quotes: You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

Mary Antin quotes: The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Mary Antin quotes: 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.

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.

Mary Antin quotes: A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

Mary Antin quotes: I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

Mary Antin quotes: In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

Mary Antin quotes: A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.