Bernard Malamud Quotes
One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love my wife, I love my kids.
-
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
-
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
-
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
-
I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
-
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
-
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
-
I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
-
A laugh is a terrible weapon.
-
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
-
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
-
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
-
I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
-
I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
-
I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.
-
Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
-
I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.
-
Globalization is a fact of economic life.
-
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
-
I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.
-
One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
