Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
BERNARD MALAMUDI 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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