A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDIn my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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