Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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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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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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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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