A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
BERNARD MALAMUDI work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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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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