We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUDAll men are Jews, though few men know it.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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You see in others who you are.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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