If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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You see in others who you are.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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