Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamudwas an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 April 1914
CountryUnited States of America
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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.
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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.
I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if it's a writer, 20 years later.
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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.