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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
— Bernard Malamud
Life, despite their frantic yoohooings, had passed them by.
— Bernard Malamud
Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
— Bernard Malamud
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
— Bernard Malamud
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
— Bernard Malamud
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
— Bernard Malamud
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
— Bernard Malamud
Where a boy runs he never forgets.
— Bernard Malamud
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
— Bernard Malamud
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.
— Bernard Malamud
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
— Bernard Malamud
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
— Bernard Malamud
I thought of her as my mother, but rarely of myself as her daughter.
— Janna Malamud Smith
Where to look if you've lost your mind?
— Bernard Malamud
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.
— Bernard Malamud
His blood changed to falling snow.
— Bernard Malamud
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 Malamud
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
— Bernard Malamud
Politics isn't in my nature.
— Bernard Malamud
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
— Bernard Malamud
We have two lives ... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
— Bernard Malamud
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
— Bernard Malamud
I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
— Bernard Malamud
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
— Bernard Malamud
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
— Bernard Malamud
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
— Bernard Malamud
Since I can't be a professional on account of lack of education I wouldn't mind being wealthy.
— Bernard Malamud
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
— Bernard Malamud
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
— Bernard Malamud
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.
— Bernard Malamud
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
— Bernard Malamud
We are all terribly alone no matter what people say.
— Bernard Malamud
You see in others who you are.
— Bernard Malamud
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
— Bernard Malamud
Librarians are the bedrock of the public domain and the defenders of our fundamental right to access knowledge.
— Carl Malamud
They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.
— Bernard Malamud
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 Malamud
She is not for you. She is a wild onewild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi. — Bernard Malamud
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
— Bernard Malamud
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
— Bernard Malamud
We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
— Bernard Malamud
I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
— Bernard Malamud
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
— Bernard Malamud
If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.
— Bernard Malamud
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to goif there are no doors or windows
he walks through a wall. — Bernard Malamud
For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
— Bernard Malamud
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
— Bernard Malamud
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
— Bernard Malamud
Who invented my life?
— Bernard Malamud
Nobody lived in Eden anymore.
— Bernard Malamud
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
— Bernard Malamud
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
— Bernard Malamud
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
— Bernard Malamud
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
— Bernard Malamud
One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
— Bernard Malamud
You can't eat language but it eases thirst.
— Bernard Malamud
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.
— Bernard Malamud
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958) — Bernard Malamud
Write your heart out.
— Bernard Malamud
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
— Bernard Malamud
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
— Bernard Malamud
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
— Bernard Malamud
If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.
— Bernard Malamud
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
— Bernard Malamud
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
— Bernard Malamud
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
— Bernard Malamud
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
— Bernard Malamud
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
— Bernard Malamud
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was
— Bernard Malamud
INTERVIEWER:What specific piece of advice would you give to young writers?
MALAMUD:
Write your heart out. — Bernard Malamud
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
— Bernard Malamud
I'm an American, I'm a Jew, and I write for all men.
— Bernard Malamud
