When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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