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.
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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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