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.
BERNARD MALAMUDPolitics isn’t in my nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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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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