The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUDSome men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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