I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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… 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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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