Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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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!
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
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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.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
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For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.
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I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
