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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.

Bernard Malamud

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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

People Stories Style
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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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Who You Are Writing
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
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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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Pleasure Revision Writing
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Follow Joy Life Your Heart
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Baseball Mythology Quality
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success

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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