In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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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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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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