Bernard Malamud - Man Quotes

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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to – if there are no doors or windows – he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Bernard Malamud

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.

Bernard Malamud

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.

Bernard Malamud

There's no such thing as an unpolitical man, especially a Jew.

Bernard Malamud

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Bernard Malamud

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Bernard Malamud