(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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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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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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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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