… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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