Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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