Nightwood Quote by Djuna Barnes

“The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He…

— Leo Tolstoy

Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has…

— Maurice Samuel

“Nobody else exists to me when he lands. Everything stops existing when he takes off, as if he takes it all with him when…

— Aleksandr Voinov

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever…

— Pearl S. Buck

“And God was here anyway, before the missionaries came. We called him by a different name, then, and he did not live over at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I exist in a twenty-mile radius, but through him, I know all lands, principalities and kingdoms, peoples and customs. I need never be ashamed…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom,…

— Judy Croome

“Wherever he went he would be a stranger, for there was no home in the world for such as he.”

— Sylvia Engdahl

“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run…

— Salman Rushdie

“What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to reach America and its promise…

— James A. Michener