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.
BERNARD MALAMUDI am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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