The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUDWithout heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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