When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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 have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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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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