Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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I 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.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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