What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
BERNARD MALAMUDIn my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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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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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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