A 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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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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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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If 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.
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