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 MALAMUD
If 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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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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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