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.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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