Israel Zangwill Quotes
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
Quotes to Explore
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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I don't die in anything!
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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Food can change anything.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Time will heal everything.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
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That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.
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A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.
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I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
