Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou see in others who you are.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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