"The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud."

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Source : 'Dubin's Lives' (1979) p. 20

Bernard Malamud

#Past Quotes #Experience Quotes #Clay Quotes

“I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.”

Source : Alison Deming (2016). “Stairway to Heaven: Poems”, p.10, Penguin
“This being-nice crap was for thebirds.”
“We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.”
“May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.”
“All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.”
“If the value of human was given by others, so there is no valuable person in this world.”
“I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature.”
“What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.”

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