In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUDNo use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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?
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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… 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.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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You see in others who you are.
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