Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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