Politics isn’t in my nature.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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