The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUD… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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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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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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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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