How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUDTeach yourself to work in uncertainty.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is 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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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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