Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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