Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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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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