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.
BERNARD MALAMUDComedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Ithink 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.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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