You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDA 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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