All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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… 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.
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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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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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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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