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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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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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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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
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'British Empire. First trip to India. Glorious. Never would have believed it would all be gone in my lifetime. Not possible, I’d’ve thought. I am the last king-emperor, you know. My brother was, for a time, but had to give it up. I didn’t'
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
