The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUDWe’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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