Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUDTeach yourself to work in uncertainty.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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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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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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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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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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