Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou see in others who you are.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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