Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDPolitics isn’t in my nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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