Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
BERNARD MALAMUDSpace plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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… 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.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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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 see in others who you are.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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