Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The 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.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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