There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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