The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUDA 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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I 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.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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