The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhen I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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