How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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