The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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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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… 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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