Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDNationality isn’t soul.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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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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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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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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You see in others who you are.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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