The Assistant Quotes
The Assistant
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Bernard Malamud11,173 ratings, 3.90 average rating, 693 reviews
The Assistant Quotes
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“When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.”
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“His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges.”
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― The Assistant
“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best two people could was what really mattered.”
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“Where a boy runs he never forgets.”
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― The Assistant
“It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.”
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― The Assistant
“She had recently come to think that in such unhappy times-when the odds were so high against personal happiness-to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best as two people could was what really mattered. Was it more important to insist a man's religious beliefs be exactly hers, or that the two of them have in common ideals, a desire to keep love in their lives, and to preserve in every possible way what was best in themselves? The less difference among people, the better; thus she settled it for herself yet was dissatisfied for those for whom she hadn't settled it,”
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― The Assistant
“Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.”
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― The Assistant
“Lei si recava in biblioteca in media due volte a settimana, prendendo solo un libro o due per volta, perché ritornare a chiederne un altro era una delle sue poche gioie. Anche nei momenti in cui si sentiva più sola le piaceva trovarsi in mezzo ai libri, sebbene qualche volta fosse deprimente vedere il numero dei volumi che non aveva ancora letto.”
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― The Assistant
“L'idea che qualunque cosa facesse si dovesse trasformare in un evento irrimediabile, gli dava un senso disperato di frustrazione.”
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― The Assistant
“Le storie ci accompagneranno finchè esisterà l'uomo. Lo si capisce, in parte, dall'effetto che hanno sui bambini. Grazie alle storie i bambini capiscono che il mistero non li ucciderà. Grazie alle storie scoprono di avere un futuro.”
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― The Assistant
“being naturally honest, he didn’t believe that others come by their dishonesty naturally.”
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― The Assistant
“But if you slept it was night, that’s how things were.”
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― The Assistant
“and he was troubled by the thought of how easy it was for a man to wreck his whole life in a single wrong act. After that the guy suffered forever, no matter what he did to make up for the wrong.”
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“Against words the liquor dealer had other words, but silence silenced him.”
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― The Assistant
“He labored long hours, was the soul of honesty—he could not escape his honesty, it was bedrock; to cheat would cause an explosion in him, yet he trusted cheaters—coveted nobody’s nothing and always got poorer.”
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― The Assistant
“The world suffers. He felt every schmerz.”
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― The Assistant
“Tirò su una palata di neve e la buttò in strada. Si polverizzò a mezz'aria e turbinò via.”
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― The Assistant
“Sam Pearl, curvo su un foglio verde delle corse, gli fece un cenno di saluto con la mano grassoccia. A nessuno dei due veniva mai in mente di mettersi a chiacchierare. Che ne capiva lui delle corse di cavalli? Che ne sapeva l'altro della tragicità della vita?”
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― The Assistant
“L'America era diventata troppo complicata e un uomo non contava più nulla. Troppi negozi, troppe depressioni, troppe ansie. Cosa aveva voluto fuggire, venendo qui?”
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― The Assistant
“Era in balia di ogni soffio di vento, non possedeva nulla.”
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“Certe persone desidererebbero che i loro figli leggessero di più. Io vorrei che tu leggessi di meno.”
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“Più sgobbava - la sua fatica era un'immagine del tempo che divora se stesso - meno sembrava possedere.”
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― The Assistant
“Erano i primi di novembre e all'alba l'oscurità della notte durava ancora nella via, ma il vento, con meraviglia del negoziante, imperversava già. Gli sbatté con violenza il grembiule in faccia mentre si chinava a raccogliere le due cassette di latte dal bordo del marciapiede. Ansimando, Morris Bober trascinò fino alla porta i pesanti recipienti.”
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― The Assistant
“Ogni occhiata perduta, per uno che viveva di sguardi, era una perdita irrimediabile.”
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“Quando si ha qualcosa da fare che valga la pena, dormire è una perdita.”
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“L'uomo non dimentica mai i luoghi in cui ha corso da bambino.”
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“Quando un uomo è onesto dorme tranquillo. E questo vale più di cinque centesimi rubati.”
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“Era nato buono, il che se ti capita è una virtù.”
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