Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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