When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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