You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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You see in others who you are.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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