We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUDLife is a tragedy full of joy.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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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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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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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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