Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhat suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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