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.
BERNARD MALAMUDComedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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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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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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