If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt’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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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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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