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.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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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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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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