The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUDWhat suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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 past exudes legend: 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.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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I 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.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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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 sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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