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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To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.
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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.
