How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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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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