“Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.”
Source: DUBLIN'S LIVES
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Famous Bernard Malamud Quotes
“A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.”
Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
Source: The Assistant
“Charity you can give even when you haven't got.”
Source: A Malamud Reader
“If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.”
Source: A Malamud Reader
“In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.”
Source: The Fixer
Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
Source: The Assistant
Source: The Fixer
“No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.”
Source: The Fixer
Source: DUBLIN'S LIVES
“We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.”
“(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.”
Source: The Fixer
“Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.”
Source: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
Source: Dubin's Lives
Source: The Natural: A Novel
“The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.”
“We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.”
Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel
“You see in others who you are.”
Source: Dubin's Lives
“I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.”
Source: A Malamud Reader
“... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.”
Source: A Malamud Reader
Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel
“A man had to learn, it was his nature.”
Source: The Fixer
“For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.”
Source: The Fixer
Source: Rembrandt's Hat
Source: The Fixer
“If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.”
Source: A Malamud Reader
“How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?”
Source: Rembrandt's Hat
Source: The Fixer
“Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.”
Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel
“I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.”
Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
“You can't eat language but it eases thirst.”
Source: The Tenants: A Novel