I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man had to learn, it was his nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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