We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou see in others who you are.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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 men are Jews, though few men know it.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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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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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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