Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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It’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.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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