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Mary Antin

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Also known as Mary Antin Grabau

American memoirist (1881–1949)

Person · Open Library

Born
1881
Died
1949
Works
18

Top works

  • The lie
  • Immigrants portion
  • From Plotzk to Boston
  • The Promised Land
  • At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1921-06-13
Active to
1991-12-01

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
7
Total plays
27

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Quotes

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