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Mary Antin, née le 13 juin 1881 à Polotsk et morte le 15 mai 1949 à Suffern est une femme de lettres américaine d'origine juive, militant pour les droits des immigrés. Wikipedia

✵ 13. juin 1881 – 15. mai 1949

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“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.”

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Mary Antin livre The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land (1912), Ch. 10.

“It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.”

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Mary Antin livre The Promised Land

Introduction
The Promised Land (1912)

“Outside America I should hardly be believed if I told how simply, in my experience, Dover Street merged into the Back Bay.”

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Mary Antin livre The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land (1912), Ch. 20.

“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.”

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Mary Antin livre The Promised Land

Introduction.
The Promised Land (1912)