"In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams."

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Source : Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

Bernard Malamud

“A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.100, Broadway Books
“Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!”
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
“Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.”

Source : "Coalition's climate policy 'bullshit': Turnbull". www.abc.net.au. December 7, 2009.
“I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.”
“I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.”
“If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..”
“They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.”

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