When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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You see in others who you are.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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