If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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You see in others who you are.
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