Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
BERNARD MALAMUDI sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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