"No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them."

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Source : Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.59, Atlantic Books Ltd

Bernard Malamud

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“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (2009). “Girl With a Pearl Earring”, p.14, HarperCollins UK
“the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.”
“It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.”

Source : "Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism". Book by James Conant and Urszula M. Zeglen, 2002.
“The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205â€”a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”
“Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.”

Source : "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.”
“It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.”
“I never thought I'd be in a family that has more people than a small country.”

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