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.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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