Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou see in others who you are.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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