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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. ↗

— David Antin

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While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. ↗

— David Antin

#common #george #gives #i #i think

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. ↗

— Mary Antin

#burned #carry #delighted #did #father

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. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bare #conversation #correctly #day #evening

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. ↗

— Mary Antin

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The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die. ↗

— Mary Antin

#commands #czar #die #except #left

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. ↗

— Mary Antin

#birth #bits #body #born #exceedingly

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

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

— Mary Antin

#children #examined #heart #heavy #jewish

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. ↗

— Antisthenes

#discover #first #mistakes #pay #pay attention