When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDIthink 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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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 could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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