We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUDPolitics isn’t in my nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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You see in others who you are.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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