If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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