KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

S. Ansky Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by S. Ansky

Showing 1-4 of 4 Quotes by S. Ansky

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

~S. Ansky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

~S. Ansky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

~S. Ansky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

~S. Ansky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

Links

Find S. Ansky on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Helen Keller
C. S. Lewis
Tony Robbins
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Stephen Hawking Katharine Hepburn Michael Jackson D. H. Lawrence Michel De Montaigne Jerry Seinfeld Sophocles William Arthur Ward

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1920 - Ray Bradbury

1822 - George Stoneman

1832 - Julius Sterling Morton

1854 - Charles Fillmore

1862 - Claude Debussy

1891 - Jacques Lipchitz

1902 - Leni Riefenstahl

1904 - Deng Xiaoping

1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson

1914 - Jack Dunphy

Birthdays on August 22nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Dating Government History Life Money Morning Mother's Day Romantic