We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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