You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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