Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
BERNARD MALAMUDA man had to learn, it was his 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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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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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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