It was all those biographies in me yelling, “We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.” - Bernard Malamud

I think I said "All men are Jews except they don'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.

We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.