All men are Jews, though few men know it.
BERNARD MALAMUDAnd 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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