We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
BERNARD MALAMUDAnd 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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