… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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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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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A 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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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