How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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You see in others who you are.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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