If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
BERNARD MALAMUDTeach yourself to work in uncertainty.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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You see in others who you are.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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