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.
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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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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You see in others who you are.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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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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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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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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