There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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?
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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