I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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… 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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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