How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUDAs long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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