When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDIthink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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.
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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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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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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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You see in others who you are.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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