A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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