We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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