"The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction."

-- Bernard Malamud

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“To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
“I knew from the minute I saw her (Hillary) that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her.”
“I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.”
“I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.”

Source : Larry Crabb (2007). “Becoming a True Spiritual Community: A Profound Vision of What the Church Can Be”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc
“He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.”
“Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.”
“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.58, Penguin
“The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.”

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