I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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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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