… 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.
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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You see in others who you are.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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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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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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