The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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