The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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… 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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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