Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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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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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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