For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUDWithout heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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… 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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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