"The purpose of freedom is to create it for others."

-- Bernard Malamud

#Purpose Quotes

“Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.”
“Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.”
“When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.”
“I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.”
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”
“I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.”
“I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.”
“Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.”

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