We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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You see in others who you are.
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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 work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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