Bernard Malamud Quotes

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• Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

  Bernard Malamud

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

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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.

  Bernard Malamud

  Tattoo, Wall, Men

  1973 Rembrandt's Hat,'The Man in the Drawer'.

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• We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

  Bernard Malamud

  Live Life, Two, Suffering

  "The Natural: A Novel".

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• If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

  Bernard Malamud

  Track, Train, Stations

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Life is a tragedy full of joy.

  Bernard Malamud

  Life, Follow Your Heart, Joy

  New York Times, January 29, 1979.

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• Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Teach, Uncertainty

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• What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

  Bernard Malamud

  Suffering, Taught, Uselessness

  Bernard Malamud (2004). “The Fixer: A Novel”, p.333, Macmillan

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• The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

  Bernard Malamud

  Purpose

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• For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

  Bernard Malamud

  Giving, Misery, Blame

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You see in others who you are.

  Bernard Malamud

  Identity, Who You Are

  Bernard Malamud (2017). “Dubin's Lives”, p.146, Random House

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• There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Fixers

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Writing, Three

  Bernard Malamud (1989). “The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction”, p.10, Macmillan

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• No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

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  Anger, Hot, Coal

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.59, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Revision, Pleasure

  "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.

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• How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

  Bernard Malamud

  Believe, Stranger, Believe In God

  Bernard Malamud (1973). “Rembrandt's Hat”, p.8, Macmillan

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• If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Voice

  Bernard Malamud (1967). “A Malamud Reader”, p.468, Macmillan

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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.

  Bernard Malamud

  Two, Sometimes, Metaphor

  1975 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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

  Bernard Malamud

  Steps, Normal, Courses

  Bernard Malamud (2017). “Dubin's Lives”, p.166, Random House

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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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  Giving Up, Thinking, Giving

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.149, Macmillan

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• A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

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  Reading, Surprise, Worth Reading

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All men are Jews, though few men know it.

  Bernard Malamud

  Men, Jew, Knows

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• (Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

  Bernard Malamud

  Men, Clothes, Kind

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

  Bernard Malamud

  Stories, Firsts

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• A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

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  Men, Constructs

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.62, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

  Bernard Malamud

  Eye, Alaska, Spectators

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