When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDNo use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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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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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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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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