We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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