Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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