I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
BERNARD MALAMUDIn my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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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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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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