The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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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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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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