Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUDIn my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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