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 MALAMUDRevision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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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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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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