If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
BERNARD MALAMUDPolitics isn’t in my nature.
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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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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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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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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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… 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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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And 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.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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