What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhere to look if you’ve lost your mind?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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 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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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