A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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