As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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You see in others who you are.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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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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