Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
BERNARD MALAMUDFor misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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