"Life is a tragedy full of joy."

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Source : New York Times, January 29, 1979.

Bernard Malamud

#Life Quotes #Joy Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Chime out, thou little song of Spring, Float in the blue skies ravishing. Thy song-of-life a joy doth bring That's sweet, albeit fleeting. Float on the Spring-winds e'en to my home: And when thou to a rose shalt come That hath begun to show her bloom, Say, I send her greeting!”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.235, University of Georgia Press
“What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.”
“Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.”
“The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love.”
“I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.”
“I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The Universe energy doesn't lie.”
“If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.”

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