… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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.
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