Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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 don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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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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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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