The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUDIf you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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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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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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 one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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