… 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.
BERNARD MALAMUDA writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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