You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDTeach yourself to work in uncertainty.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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