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Bernard Malamud

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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Long Men Perseverance
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
… 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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Believe Cloud Sky
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
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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Book Firsts Ideas
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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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Clay Past Recapture Time
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia

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