A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
BERNARD MALAMUDLife is a tragedy full of joy.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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