"A man has to construct, invent, his freedom."

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Source : Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.62, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Bernard Malamud

#Men Quotes #Constructs Quotes

“One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.”
“There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.”
“Nothing is easy, but who wants nothing?”
“Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.”
“In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.”

Source : "Roberto Clemente Day at Three Rivers Stadium". pgdigs.tumblr.com. July 25, 1970.
“I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor”
“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”

Source : "The Conspiracy of Fiesco" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. xviii, 1783.
“When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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