Bernice Rubens famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
-- Bernice Rubens

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If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
-- Bernice Rubens

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Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highlyÂ creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there.Â I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, andÂ that sound will inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestryÂ of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creativeÂ achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.
-- Bernice Rubens

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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
A decision by the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or a decree may not be scrutinized by a judge. In addition, the judge is bound by any other decision of the Fuhrer.
Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

Bernice Rubens famous quotes

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