If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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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 can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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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.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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