You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhen I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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