Barry N. Malzberg famous quotes

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
-- Barry N. Malzberg

#Fifty #Truth Is #Given

Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
-- Barry N. Malzberg

#Motivation #Understanding #Facts

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.
-- Barry N. Malzberg

#Rivers #Survival #Coins

Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.
-- Barry N. Malzberg

#Self #Years #Deception

"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
-- Barry N. Malzberg

#Motivation #Understanding #Captains

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
-- Barry N. Malzberg

#Able #Rewriting #Vitality

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.