We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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.
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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