Quotes by Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud

American novelist

Lived from: 1914 - 1986

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 26 april 1914 Died: 18 march 1986

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  • A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
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  • Ah, Dubin, you meet a pretty girl on the road and are braced to hop on a horse in pursuit of youth.
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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.
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  • If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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  • It was all those biographies in me yelling, We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.
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  • 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.
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  • Levin wanted friendship and got friendliness; he wanted steak and they offered spam.
    A New Life
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  • Mourning is a hard business, Cesare said. If people knew there'd be less death.
    Life is Better than Death, in Idiots First
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  • No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.
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  • Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three or throw them away and look for others.
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  • 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.
    Dubins Lives p. 27.
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  • Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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  • 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.
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  • She entered his dreams sane and left mad. She began with words of love and ended with sounds that frightened him.
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  • Stay with it... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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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.
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  • 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 self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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  • They were together now in the vault under the tombstone; their ashes were, with the remains of those of their children who were not buried elsewhere, although all their names were incised on the stone.
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  • Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
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  • Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bernard Malamud?

The two most famous quotes from Bernard Malamud are:

  • "A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best."
  • "Ah, Dubin, you meet a pretty girl on the road and are braced to hop on a horse in pursuit of youth."

When did Bernard Malamud live?

Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 and died in the year 1986.