… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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