Children 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 first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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