I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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