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?
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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