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.
BERNARD MALAMUDAs long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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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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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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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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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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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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