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.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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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.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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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.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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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.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I think that place is a huge part of pretty much any musician's work, in how one responds to an environment, whether it be your actual surroundings or the more figurative place we're all living in.
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As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
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...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
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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.
