A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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