"The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course"

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Source : Bernard Malamud (2017). “Dubin's Lives”, p.166, Random House

Bernard Malamud

#Steps Quotes #Normal Quotes

“The normal make a living. The deranged make history.”

Source : "Titus". www.imdb.com. 2000.
“Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.”
“And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.”

Source : Thomas Cranmer (1833). “Remains”, p.140
“Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.”
“Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.”
“I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a certain role or if you're going to be employed the next year. It's nice to be comfortable with that and then you can concern yourself with the stories and nothing else. There's no other agenda than putting out a good product.”
“When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.”
“I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.”

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