We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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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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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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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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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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