Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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