Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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 wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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 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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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There 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.
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