143 Quotes by Bernard Malamud

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.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

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 loneliness and men know it best.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

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.

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was