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Where are the merchants who used to chase after me to purchase my favours? O malevolent Time! Nowadays, they abhor my company; when I call for them, there is no answer. How has my merchandise been…
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Immanuel Frances
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17th Century
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Merv:Sara, can I have my shirt? I’ve got a lunch date with the rabbi of Dublin.
Sara:Mervyn, you came all the way to Queen Anne’s Gate. Please sit a minute.
Tess:Sit down, Merv. I’ll get your shirt. W…
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Wendy Wasserstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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Bigdickus:Where’s he going? [shouting at an aide who has just exited] Where do you think you’re going?!
Prostitutus:He thinks he’s going to baby-sit.
Bigdickus:Babysitting? I sent him to kill her and…
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Anat Gov
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Ramat HaSharon, Israel
Date:
2001
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Mendl said: This city of Kisalon [lit. “Foolsville,” Yid. Glupsk], where I’ll begin my story, is very important, for the entire Jewish Pale of Settlement is named after it. And it is not through…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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1886
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All along the street, on both sides, on the lowest floor of the houses there are a multitude of stores, large and small. The majority of them are pressed into holes so narrow as to allow passage for…
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Ben-Avigdor
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1891
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“I am Mother of all the tribe,” she said with dignity. “These”—she indicated the women about her—“are mothers of the clans. You may speak—openly. Why is the birth of a male child cause for…
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Miriam Michelson
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San Francisco, United States of America
New York, United States
Date:
1912
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Once upon a time, in the “good old days”—some ten or twenty years ago, let’s say—the people in Shklov still did not know what newspapers really were like. Their sole source of news was a solitary…
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Zalman Shneour
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
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1936
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Ros:We could play at questions.
Guil:What good would that do?
Ros:Practice!
Guil:Statement! One-love.
Ros:Cheating!
Guil:How?
Ros:I hadn’t started yet.
Guil:Statement. Two—love.
Ros:Are you counting…
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Tom Stoppard
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1966
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Rue Sainte-Catherine, people turned as we passed. Probably because of my father’s purple suit, his Kentucky green shirt and the same old shoes with the astrakhan spats. I fondly…
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Patrick Modiano
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Paris, France
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1968
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Her mother shed a tear or two but wasn’t really
crying. It was the thing to do, so she did it
enjoying every moment. The bride laughed when I
sympathized, and said don’t be silly.
Her brothers had…
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Nissim Ezekiel
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Mumbai, India
Date:
1962