You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man had to learn, it was his nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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