No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUDOvernight 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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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.
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