How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUDRevision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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