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 MALAMUDOf 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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