Bernard Malamud Quotes

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

Israel

Without heroes, we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

heroism

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

role models

I love metaphor.  It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

metaphor

There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.  Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

biography