Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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