The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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