I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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