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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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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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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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