All Bernard Malamud Quotes
- 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… Adventure
- No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them. Across
- 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. Autobiography
- We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. Apology
- (Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes. Cannot Change
- Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear. Change
- Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game. Ahead
- 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… Achieved
- The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. Clay
- We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers. All
- You see in others who you are. Identity
- I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know. Confuse
- ... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say. All
- Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. Alike
- A man had to learn, it was his nature. Inspirational
- For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it. Blame
- Nationality isn't soul ... Funny
- Politics isn't in my nature. Funny
- As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks. Alive
- If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend. Blessing
- How can we be strangers if we both believe in God? Believe
- ... 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… Believe
- The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. Great
- Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live. Funny
- I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. Afterthought