Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUDOne often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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