Life is a tragedy full of joy.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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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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