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.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere 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.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhen I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
BERNARD MALAMUDChildren were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUDThe past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
BERNARD MALAMUDSpace plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUDReader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf 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.
BERNARD MALAMUDAll my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUD(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
BERNARD MALAMUD