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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

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course — 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

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. — 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 one
wild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi. — Bernard Malamud

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far it is we can go. — 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

His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges. — 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 go
if 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

It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different. — 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

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. — 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

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ... — Bernard Malamud