When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou see in others who you are.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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