You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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