Nationality isn’t soul.
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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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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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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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