We have two lives – the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
—Bernard Malamud
Topics: Experience
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
—Bernard Malamud
Topics: Happiness
We didn’t starve, but we didn’t eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
—Bernard Malamud
Topics: Poverty
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
—Bernard Malamud
Topics: Role models
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
—Bernard Malamud
Topics: Simplicity
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