We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhere to look if you’ve lost your mind?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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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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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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