Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
BERNARD MALAMUDLife is a tragedy full of joy.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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You see in others who you are.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I 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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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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