143 Quotes by Bernard Malamud

Politics isn't in my nature.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Nationality isn't soul ...

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

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

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.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

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

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.