Bernard Malamud - The Fixer (1966)

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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.

Bernard Malamud

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Bernard Malamud

A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise.

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

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?

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

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

Bernard Malamud

It's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Bernard Malamud