The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man had to learn, it was his nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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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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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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