I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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