We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhere to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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