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 was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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