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 MALAMUDAll men are Jews, though few men know it.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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