Life is a tragedy full of joy.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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… 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.
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