What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhat suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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