There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
BERNARD MALAMUDTomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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