(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
BERNARD MALAMUDSpace plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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