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"34 Bernard Malamud Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 26 April 1914. Died: 18 March 1986 | Novelist | Writer |

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live

Writing Mode Write I live
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The great thing about writing: Stay with it.ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Great thing Writing Stay Teach yourself
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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.

Possible Love fly Cloud Windy
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

Be strangers We both Believe In God
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If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Hear His voice When prayers Go up
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As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Man stays Alive Chances Dead man
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For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
For misery Blame God He gives Food
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

Some men Nature explorers Stay Same moon
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

What's broken The heat
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Space Feel equals Marvelous Happiness
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Past exudes Legend Pure clay No life
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye

A writer Spectator Looking at everything Critical eye
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them

Wrong book The fear
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We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Persecuted Most civilized languages
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

My life Accomplish Something worthwhile People
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

My dreams Ate
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got

Charity Can give Haven't got
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others

Purpose Freedom Create Others
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me

When Feel hurt Hope Bury me
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We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.

Two lives Life We learn Suffering
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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.

There comes Time Man's life No doors
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Wild begins Least expect Normal course
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Life is a tragedy full of joy

Life Tragedy Full Joy
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are

Who write Reflect About life You are
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Man To construct Invent His freedom
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Teach Yourself Work Uncertainty
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Most lives Living joy Celebrations Illusions
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we are all terribly alone no matter what people say

Terribly alone No matter People say
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Clothes cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Clothes Cannot change Man's nature Kind
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

Tomorrow The world Same Today
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

Children You loved Gave back Were grown
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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Be friends Relatives The world Have
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Man Has to Learn His nature
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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Don't think Do anything Giving up Something
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Bernard Malamud Quotes & Sayings