I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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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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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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