The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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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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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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