Quotes by Mary Antin

Mary Antin

[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn’t belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was.

Honor

Patriotic

Pyramids

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

Eye

Facts

Progress

A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

Elements

Practice

Use

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

Long

Past

Running

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

Autobiography

Bed

Confession

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man’s unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

Men

Unfinished Work

Yesterday

Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.

Drinking

Giving Up

Memories

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

School

Struggle

Writing

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

Art

Clouds

Drama

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

Two

Want

World

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Autobiography

Bed

Bigs

Birthday

Bones

Children

Clouds

Community

Confession

Cooking

Cradle

Czars

Drama

Drinking

Elements

Errors

Eye

Facts

Fall

Father

Girl

Giving Up

Heart

Honor

House

Liable

Long

Matter

May

Memories

Men

Mom

Morning

Mother

Nations

Noses

Pain

Past

Patriotic

Police

Practice

Pride

Progress

Pyramids

Real

Refuse

Ruined

Running

Scholar

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Quotes by Mary Antin

Mary Antin

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

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

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

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

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

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