How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUDWhat suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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You see in others who you are.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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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’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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