Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
BERNARD MALAMUDPolitics isn’t in my nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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You see in others who you are.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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