A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDI 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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