Bernard Malamud Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
-
It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
-
The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
-
Creative people are more prone to depression.
-
Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
-
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
-
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
-
If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
-
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
-
When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
-
I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
-
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
-
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
-
I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
-
If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
-
I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
-
Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
-
Revolutions go not backward.
-
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.
-
We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.
-
The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
-
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
-
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.
-
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
