Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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