There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
BERNARD MALAMUD… 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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