Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDWriting is a mode of being. If I write I live.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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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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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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