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.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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