Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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 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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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