"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go."

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Source : Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

Bernard Malamud

#Inspirational Quotes #Inspiring Quotes #Veterans Day Quotes

“This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!”
“I enjoy being on my own. I feel like I have more room to stretch. I have to go with the flow.”
“I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.”
“intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2009). “Resurrecting Midnight”, p.173, Penguin
“I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.”
“I run behind her, letting her stay a few steps ahead of me so if she happens to fall Iâ€™ll be there to laugh at her first and then help her up afterwards.”
“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
“When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.”

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