Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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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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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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