As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou see in others who you are.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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