For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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… 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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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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