(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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