Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
BERNARD MALAMUDThe wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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