For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUDFor misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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