Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
BERNARD MALAMUDAs long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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