"Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game."

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Source : Bernard Malamud (1979). “Dubin's Lives”, Penguin Books

Bernard Malamud

#Children Quotes #Games Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Tell the truth and make it rhyme”
“You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'”
“I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution.”
“In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”
“There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.”
“[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”

Source : "The disappearance of the Jews", www.economist.com. May 10, 2001.
“The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.”

Source : Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.6, Beacon Press

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