Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
BERNARD MALAMUDSome 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?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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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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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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