The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUDI fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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One 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.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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