In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUDPrufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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