Famous quotes containing the words jewish and/or father:
“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious applicationwhy, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
—Howard Nemerov (19201991)
“My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boya sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between uswhich is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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