No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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