The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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