Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUDSome 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?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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