I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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 wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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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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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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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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