The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
BERNARD MALAMUDWriting is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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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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